Blu-Ray Video, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
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What really gives these performances weight, in the best sense, is Barenboim’s marvellous sense of the long line – the kind of incredible long-breathed phrasing that, in his hands, can make... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Prokofiev: The Gambler, Op. 24
Misha Didyk (Alexei), Kristine Opolais (Polina), Vladimir Ognovenko (General), Stefania Toczyska (Babulenka), Stephan Rügamer (The Marquis), Sylvia de la Muela (Blanche), Viktor Rud (Mr Astley)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Dmitri Tcherniakov (stage director)
Barenboim's crystal-clear pacing of the score is hard-hitting rather than quicksilvery, but the payoff in the last Act is terrific, and the blue-lit look of it all - Tcherniakov designed it,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, DVD of the Month
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Opera, July 2010, Recording of the Month
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
Peter Seiffert (Tannhäuser), Marina Prudenskaya (Venus), Ann Petersen (Elisabeth), Peter Mattei (Wolfram von Eschenbach), René Pape (Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Musically, here is work from the conductor and orchestra on the level of their 2013 London Proms Ring...A well-chosen cast make much of the sympathetic acoustic of the Staatsoper's temporary... — More…
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
Its greatest asset is Daniel Barenboim's conducting, less vigorous perhaps than his Bayreuth cycle but generally more fluent and sweeping, with fewer abrupt tempo changes, and the La Scala orchestra... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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The work, the conductor, the orchestra are all shown in the best light. It is the kind of experience that has you sitting afterwards, for a long time, wondering at the greatness of what you... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Orchestral Choice
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The performance is grand without being portentous, impassioned but never febrile, and is distinguished by a poised musicianship in the finest classical tradition. The DVD filming, like the playing,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Orchestral Choice
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a reading entirely without frills or artificial drama: as well as its innate Romanticism Barenboim allows the underlying elemental nature of the music to emerge, and at times seems almost to... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Rimsky Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride
Anatoli Kotscherga (Vasily Sobakin), Olga Peretyatko (Marfa), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Grigory Gryaznoy), Tobias Schabel (Grigory Malyuta-Skuratov), Pavel Cernoch (Ivan Lykov), Anita Rachvelishvili (Lyubasha)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
A revolving set and video wizardry, including dappled sunlight outside Marfa's home, keep the action flowing smoothly, in pin-sharp picture quality…Olga Peretyatko is an adorable Marfa, her... — More…
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Wagner: Siegfried
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Peter Bronder (Mime), Terje Stensvold (Der Wanderer), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Anna Larsson (Erda) & Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde)
Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Guy Cassiers (stage director)
Stensvold (Wanderer) sings with perfectly centred tone, terrific staying power and command of broad legato phrases...Surprisingly, though, it's Alberich here who possesses the more beautiful... — More…
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Simon O’Neill (Siegmund), John Tomlinson (Hunding), Vitalij Kowaljow (Wotan), Waltraud Meier (Sieglinde), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde) & Ekaterina Gubanova (Fricka)
Teatro Alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Guy Cassiers (stage director)
Any Daniel Barenboim Wagner performance is an event. True, his mannerisms are still apparent...but his poetic command of Wagner's phrasing tempers these...Gubanova is a steely, imperious Fricka.... — More…
