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Puccini: La Bohème
Anna Netrebko (Mimi), Rolando Villazón (Rodolfo), Nicole Cabell (Musetta), George van Bergen (Marcello), Adrian Eröd (Schaunard), Vitaly Kovalyov (Colline), Tiziano Brazzo (Benoît)
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand de Billy
Bohème has attracted filmmakers since silent days, but never as convincingly as this. …Oscar-nominated director Robert Dornhelm lends the story a darker glow, with Bertrand de Billy's soft-centred... — More…
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Peter Hofmann (Tristan), Hildegard Behrens (Isolde), Yvonne Minton (Brangaene), Hans Sotin (Marke), Bernd Weikl (Kurwenal), Heribert Steinbach (Melot), Heinz Zednik (Hirt), Raimund Grumbach (Steuerman), Thomas Moser (Seemann)
Leonard Bernstein, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
There is no acting as such in terms of movement of props used…But it is a strong cast. It’s good to be reminded of Hofmann’s big, deep tenor…, of Hildegard Behrens’s passionate use of the text... — More…
Weber: Missa Sancta No. 1 'Freischützmesse'
Lucia Popp, Doris Soffel, Horst Laubenthal & Kurt Moll, Krisztina Laki, Marga Schiml, Josef Protschka & Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bamberger Symphoniker & Chor der Bamberger Symmphoniker, Rafael Kubelik, Horst Stein
Dvorak: Stabat Mater, Op. 58
Erin Wall (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor), Liang Li (bass)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir, Mariss Jansons
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Edith Mathis (soprano), Trudeliese Schmidt (mezzo-soprano), Peter Schreier (tenor) & Gwynne Howell (bass)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
Beethoven: Symphonies 1/2/3
Live from Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2012
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote & Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Wen Xiao Zheng (viola) & Anton Barakhovsky (violin)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
It’s the Dvorak that’s the real draw here. The symphony’s rapturous reception – the genuine rapture of an audience bowled over and ablaze with joy – says it all. — More…
Mariss Jansons conducts Dvorak & Mussorgsky
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Mariss Jansons conducts Brahms & Janacek
Live Recording from The KKL Concert Hall, Lucerne, 2012
Tatiana Monogarova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano), Ludovit Ludha (tenor) & Peter Mikuláš (bass)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, with Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
The Brahms Symphony in Jansons's hands is certainly an idyll, darker passages come and go without disturbing the orchestra's mellifluous warmth or Jansons's exquisite phrasings...Could more drama,... — More…
Verdi: Requiem
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano), Saimir Pirgu (tenor) & Orlin Anastassov (bass)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
[Jansons's] Requiem is a series of coups d'etat in which the returns of the actual 'Dies irae' or the launch of 'Rex tremendae majestatis' are exciting aural shocks. He also devotes much time... — More…