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New, Offer, The Morricone Duel
The most dangerous concert ever
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Hicks
Offer, 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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Offer, Europakonzert 2018 - Beethoven & Wagner from Bayreuth
Berliner Philharmoniker
Offer, Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Eric Owens (Porgy), Laquita Mitchell (Bess), Chauncey Packer (Sportin' Life), Lester Lynch (Crown), Angel Blue (Clara), Karen Slack (Serena), Alteouise deVaughn (Maria), Eric Greene (Jake), Michael Bragg (Mingo)
San Francisco Opera, John DeMain (conductor) & Francesca Zambello (director)
The orchestra crackles from the very first mote. Eric Owens's Porgy, too, immediately weighs in as a powerful presence...Provided you're comfortable with waves of vibrato, Laquita Mitchell's... — More…
Offer, 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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Offer, Europakonzert 2016 from Røros, Norway
Vilde Frang (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
[Frang] is predictably fine in the Mendelssohn, technically accomplished and emotionally engaged. And what a joy it must be to play this concerto with the Berliners, whose sensitivity to Mendelssohn’s... — More…
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Offer, Boito: Mefistofele
Ildar Abdrazakov, Ramón Vargas, Patricia Racette, Erin Johnson, Chuanyue Wang
San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Dance Corps, Nicola Luisotti
Offer, 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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Offer, Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
Paata Burchuladze (Ivan Khovansky), Anatoly Kotscherga (Dosifey), Camilla Nylund (Emma), Doris Soffel (Marfa), Klaus Florian Vogt (Andrey Khovansky) & John Daszak (Vasily Golitsin)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kent Nagano
Offer, András Schiff plays Bach
András Schiff (piano)
over two hours of unalloyed joy...Schiff combines the secure touch of a performer thoroughly immersed in Bach's style with an effervescent freshness of spirit. Whether it is in the more complex... — More…