Browse: DVD Video, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Das Rheingold
John Tomlinson (Wotan), Graham Clark (Loge), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Linda Finnie (Fricka), Matthias Hölle (Fasolt), Philip Kang (Fafner), Eva Johansson (Freia), Bodo Brinkmann (Donner), Kurt Schreibmayer (Froh), Helmut Pampuc (Mime), Birgitta Svendén (Erda),...
If a cycle is going as well as the Harry Kupfer/Daniel Barenboim Ring was, the super-test of Götterdämmerung brings out the best in everyone… Barenboim manipulates his orchestra with Furtwänglerian... — More…
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
René Kollo, Johanna Meier, Matti Salminen, Hermann Becht & Hanna Schwarz
Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Daniel Barenboim
For a supposedly 'difficult' opera, there's a fair choice of DVD Tristans… But this 1983 Bayreuth version, reappearing at last here on DVD, remains the finest. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's staging... — More…
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Masters of Classical Music
20 documentaries on 5 DVDs in a luxury DVD Box
Frank Michael Erben (violin), Gil Shaham (violin), Martha Argerich (piano)
Kammerorchester C.P.E. Bach, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Freiburger Barockorchester, Wiener Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Fesitval Orchestra,...
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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New, Offer, Berliner Philharmoniker - Best of Berlioz
Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim, Georges Prêtre, Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons, Simon Rattle
Offer, 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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Tchaikovsky Edition
Berliner Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Kurt Sanderling, Claudio Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle
Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Fantasia for piano, chorus & orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (piano), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Yo Yo Ma (cello)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - 60th Anniversary Concert
Gil Shaham, Isaac Stern (violins), Maxim Vengerov, Menahem Breuer, Shlomo Mintz (violins), Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
These DVDs of La Scala performances...are most notable for showcasing this conductor's supreme command of the epic lyricism that goes to the heart of the Wagner style...while Cassiers achieves... — More…