Browse: Blu-Ray Video, Berlioz (composer)
Offer, Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Leonard Bernstein
These are well-balanced stereo recordings, surprisingly not originally recorded multi-channel. Video is excellent usually focusing on Bernstein. — More…
Offer, Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
John Osborn (Benvenuto Cellini), Mariangela Sicilia (Teresa), Maurizio Muraro (Balducci), Michèle Losier (Ascanio), Laurent Naouri (Fieramosca), Orlin Anastassov (Le Pape Clément VII)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder, Terry Gilliam
Elder conducts a thrillingly vibrant and entirely idiomatic account…Gilliam’s extraordinary eye for visual fantasy, cartoonish comedy and endless japes, meanwhile, matches the music surprisingly... — More…
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Bryan Hymel (Énée), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Didon), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre), Fabio Capitanucci (Chorebe), Hanna Hipp (Anna), Brindley Sherratt (Narbal), Ed Lyon (Hylas), Ji-min Park (Iopas)
Royal Opera House, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir David McVicar
It's powerful in all senses, not least Antonio Pappano's conducting, which is dramatically hard-driven but not without atmosphere, making the love music luminously sensuous...The huge cast is... — More…
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
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Susan Graham (Didon), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre), Renata Pokupic (Anna), Gregory Kunde (Énée), Ludovic Tézier (Chorèbe), Nicolas Testé (Panthée), Laurent Naouri (Narbal), Mark Padmore (Iopas), René Schirrer (Priam/Mercure), Topi Lehtipuu (Hylas)
Monteverdi Choir, Choeur du Théâtre...
Les Troyens hasn't fared well on DVD, but this superb authentic-instrument performance of October 2003 from the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, equals Sir Colin Davis's pioneering original. Orchestrally... — More…
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Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict
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Stéphanie d’Oustrac (Béatrice), Paul Appleby (Bénédict), Philippe Sly (Claudio), Sophie Karthäuser (Hero), Lionel Lhote (Somarone), Frédéric Caton (Don Pedro) & Katarina Bradić (Ursule)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Antonello Manacorda, Laurent Pelly (director)
This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today...The LPO rise magnificently to the... — More…
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Offer, Gergiev At the Proms
Live from the 2016 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
Münchner Philharmoniker, Valery Gergiev
The occasion is Valery Gergiev’s appearance at the 2016 BBC Proms in his first season with the Munich Philharmonic. Opening with Bolero underlines the sense of showcasing his new toy: it is... — More…
Offer, Europakonzert 1992 from from Madrid
From the Basilica of the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo De El Escorial
Plácido Domingo (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
Lionel Bringuier & Nelson Freire Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Nelson Freire (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Bringuier
Bringuier's evident penchant for chamber-like clarity reaps rewards in a taut yet genial reading [of the Roussel]...In the midst of their annual Proms marathon, these performances have a start... — More…
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Summer Night Concert 2016
Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Semyon Bychkov
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Recorded Live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 31 March and 1 & 3 April 2016
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniele Gatti