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Heggie: Moby-Dick
Jay Hunter Morris (Captain Ahab), Stephen Costello (Greenhorn), Jonathan Lemalu (Queequeg), Morgan Smith (Starbuck), Talise Trevigne (Pip), Matthew O'Neill (Flask) and Robert Orth (Stubb)
San Francisco Opera, Patrick Summers
[Hunter Morris] seizes all the dramatic opportunities as Captain Ahab...Lemalu brings musical depth to Queequeg, and Stephen Costello's Greenhorn and Morgan Smith's Starbuck are strong. Beautifully... — More…
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Pre-order, New Year’s Eve Concert 2019 - An Evening With Broadway Melodies
Diana Damrau (soprano), Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko
New, Fantasymphony
Music from Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia and more
Tuva Semmingsen (mezzo-soprano), Jihye Kim (soprano), Johan Karlström (bass), Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Junior Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Christian Schumann
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the BBC Proms
Martha Argerich (piano), West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
A remarkable and memorable evening’s music-making. [Argerich’s] recording of Liszt’s First Piano Concerto made nearly a half-century ago set new standards…Here her scintillating articulation... — More…
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Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
Anna Prohaska (Aricie), Magdalena Kožená (Phèdre), Elsa Dreisig (Diane), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Hippolyte), Gyula Orendt (Thésée), Peter Rose (Pluto/Jupiter), Roman Trekel (Tisiphone)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra & State Opera Choir, Simon Rattle
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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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Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 12 August 2009
Yuja Wang (piano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Michael Volle (Hans Sachs), Roberto Sacca (Walther Von Stolzing), Anna Gabler (Eva), Peter Sonn (David), Georg Zeppenfeld (Veit Pogner), Monika Bohinec (Magdalene), Markus Werba (Sixtus Beckmesser)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniele Gatti
Volle's Sachs is no Romantic existentialist lovelorn poet, Werba's Beckmesser no persecuted Jewish caricature...Gatti seeks to match Herheim's production with initially chamber-like sonorities... — More…
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Barbara Bonney (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Claudio Abbado
