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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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Dvořák: Rusalka
Asmik Grigorian (Rusalka), Eric Cutler (The Prince), Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev (Vodník), Katarina Dalayman (Ježibaba), Karita Mattila (The Foreign Princess), Teatro Real, Ivor Bolton, Christof Loy
Loy’s concept works well and the stylish production values make this one of the most successful Rusalkas on film...Central to the success of Loy’s production is Asmik Grigorian’s outstanding,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Opera
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Anna Karenina – A Ballet By John Neumeier Anna Laudere, Edvin Revazov, Ivan Urban, Aleix Martinez, Emilie Mazon, Hamburg Ballet, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Nathan Brock
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Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo José Carreras (Don Carlo), Agnes Baltsa (Eboli), Fiamma Izzo d'Amico (Elizabeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Philipp II), Piero Cappuccilli (Rodrigo), Matti Salminen (Grand Inquisitor), Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsoperchor, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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Yuja comes alive, it seems, only when she is on stage playing the piano, as is vividly demonstrated by the documentary and the complete performances of Rhapsody in Blue and the Ravel G major... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Krassimira Stoyanova (Marschallin), Sophie Koch (Octavian), Mojca Erdmann (Sophie), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Annina), Günther Groissböck (Ochs), Adrian Eröd (Faninal), Kresimir Spicer (Valzacchi), Stefan Pop (Italian Singer)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst
Hooray for director Harry Kupfer!...[he] knows that Rosenkavalier is a supreme exercise in nostalgia...This is also Freud's Vienna. Stoyanova's Marschallin is a scrupulous analyst of her own... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Opera Choice
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Schumann at Pier2: The Symphonies
A concert film by Christian Berger
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi
This is the sort of set that makes me grateful that classical recordings are still being made. As a refresher course in Schumann symphonies, you won't find anything better...I can't imagine any... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Olga Neuwirth: Orlando
RecommendedKate Lindsey (Orlando), Anna Clementi (Narrator), Eric Jurenas (Guardian Angel), Justin Vivian Bond (Orlando’s Child), Leigh Melrose (Greene/Shelmerdine), Constance Hauman (Queen/Purity/Friend of Orlando’s Child), Agneta Eichenholz (Sasha/Chastity)
Wiener Staatsoper, Matthias Pintscher, Polly...
Its sonorities and textures are extraordinary. Orchestral, electronic and sampled sounds run into each other to create astonishing fusions...There are many roles, all of them inhabited with unfailing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd April 2022
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Bregenzer Festspiele
Vladimir Stoyanov (Rigoletto), Mélissa Petit (Gilda), Stephen Costello (The Duke), Miklós Sebestyén (Sparafucile), Katrin Wundsam (Maddalena)
Wiener Symphoniker, Enrique Mazzola, Philipp Stölzl
The stage set is breathtaking…I can guarantee that you will ever have witnessed as surreal a ‘La donna è mobile’ (Gilda should have run a mile), nor a wet a storm scene. All this carnivalesque... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedFrancesco Demuro (Il Duca), Leo Nucci (Rigoletto), Nino Machaidze (Gilda), Marco Potti (Sparafucile), Stefanie Iranyi (Maddalena), Roberto Tagliavini (Monterone), Orazio Mori (Marullo), Mauro Buffoli (Borsa)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Massimo Zanetti, Stefano Vizioli
Nucci simply owns the role of Rigoletto...a master-class in vocal acting...Machaidze is the very embodiment of Gilda. Her characterization is simply marvellous...[she] has a lovely full tone... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice (DVD/Blu-ray
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