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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Burkhard Fritz (Waldemar), Emily Magee (Tove), Anna Larsson (Waldtaube), Markus Marquard (Bauer), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Klaus-Narr), Sunnyi Melles (Narrator)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Dutch National Opera, Marc Albrecht (conductor) & Pierre Audi (director)
The whole production presents a formidable challenge to any opera house contemplating an alternative staging. — More…
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New, Offer, Claudio Abbado: The Last Years
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, Orchestra Mozart, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Claudio Abbado
Offer, Salzburg Festival Concerts
Wiener Philharmoniker, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, National Children´s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle
Offer, Gala From Berlin: Grand Finales
Klaus Maria Brandauer (narrator)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rias Kammerchor & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Claudio Abbado
Offer, Claudio Abbado conducts Mahler and Schoenberg
Juliane Banse (soprano)
Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
Thomas Johannes Mayer (Moses), John Graham-Hall (Aron), Nicky Spence (A Youth)
Orchestre et Chœurs de National de L'Opéra de Paris, Philippe Jordan (conductor) & Romeo Castellucci (director)
The musical standards are of an exceptionally high order, starting with the chorus of the Paris Opera…Graham-Hall does more than cope with Aron’s punishing tessitura…Castellucci brings live animals... — More…
Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – The Salzburg Concerts
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
captures the sense of music-making on the wing...rarely has the final coda erupted with such overwhelming joy. The same electrifying concentration informs performances of Schoenberg's Variations... — More…
Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven
Mihoko Fujimura (alto)
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
A theme of mortality lends the concert a chilling frisson, but Abbado’s strength of ideas and his ability to communicate them with such focus are the overriding qualities as you watch him in... — More…
A Recital With Renée Fleming
Vienna At The Turn Of The 20th Century
Renée Fleming (soprano) & Maciej Pikulski (piano)
Fleming builds up a great sense of pathos in 'Um Mitternacht' and delivers a deeply affecting account of 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' supported by some wonderfully sensitive phrasing... — More…