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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
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contains 2 DVDs and Blu-ray disc
Mark Padmore (Evangelist), Christian Gerhaher (Jesus), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Magdalena Kozena (mezzo), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
Some of Sellars's gestures...are searing, and the rapt attention of the audience leaps out of the screen...Padmore is a great Evangelist and this must be his greatest performance of the role...while... — More…
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2 DVD Videos + Blu-ray
$44.50
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Offer, Ravel, Dutilleux & Delage
Recorded live at the Barbican Hall, 13th January 2016
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Julia Bullock (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
In seeing as well as hearing this concert, what comes over is Rattle's love for the music and the orchestra's wholehearted response: it all looks so terribly easy, though of course it's anything... — More…
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DVD Video + Blu-ray
($19.75) $16.00
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
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contains 2 DVDs and Blu-ray disc
Mark Padmore (Evangelist), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Roderick Williams (Jesus)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Sellars (director)
Sellars is an intrinsically 'musical' director...Williams's Christ all but steals the show - even alongside tenor Mark Padmore whose Evangelist fearlessly interrogates as well as interprets the... — More…
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2 DVD Videos + Blu-ray
$44.50
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Rattle’s deft, beautifully nuanced readings have none of the plush upholstery that once characterised the Berliners’ Schumann, and yet it’s impossible to listen to these performances without... — More…
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2 CDs + Blu-ray
$53.50
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Offer, Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 & Messiaen: Couleurs de la Cité Céleste
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle’s performance of Messiaen’s 1963 score superbly well, and the control of rhythm and colour is exemplary. The LSO winds and percussion are on superb form and Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s contribution... — More…
DVD Video + Blu-ray
($15.75) $12.75
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Europakonzert 2016 from Røros, Norway
Vilde Frang (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
[Frang] is predictably fine in the Mendelssohn, technically accomplished and emotionally engaged. And what a joy it must be to play this concerto with the Berliners, whose sensitivity to Mendelssohn’s... — More…
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Sir Simon Rattle & Sol Gabetta
Recorded live at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, 2014, directed by Torben Schmidt Jacobsen
Sol Gabetta (cello)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle’s presence can be heard, and felt, in virtually every bar of the score: the way he moulds phrases, nudges details to the fore, bends the line, holds tight to a salient accompanying detail... — More…
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Offer, Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Every nuance [of The Rite] is crafted, each detail considered, yet there is still a sense of danger and visceral power…Rattle and the LSO are joined, usurped even, by the extraordinary Barbara... — More…
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Blu-ray + DVD Video
($19.75) $16.00
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Pre-order, Offer, Waldbühne 2018 – Goodbye Sir Simon!
Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Pavol Breslik (Tamino), Kate Royal (Pamina), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Sarastro), Ana Durlovski (Queen of the Night), Michael Nagy (Papageno), Regula Mühlemann (Papagena), Annick Massis (First Lady), Magdalena Kožená (Second Lady), Nathalie Stutzmann (Third Lady), José van Dam (Speaker), James Elliott...
Think Eros and Thanatos; think the battle between life, love and death...You need quite a pool of literary reference for this production which, although it's as thoughtful and searching as Carsen's... — More…