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DVD Video, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Lucile Richardot (contralto)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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DVD Video + Blu-ray
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Special offer. New Year’s Concert
Live recording from the Teatro La Fenice, 1 January 2013
Desirée Rancatore (soprano) & Saimir Pirgu (tenor)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice & Members of the Ballet of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
Hana Blažíková (Minerva/Fortuna), Furio Zanasi (Ulisse), Lucile Richardot (Penelope), Michał Czerniawski (Pisandro), Gareth Treseder (Anfinomo), Gianluca Buratto (Tempo/Nettuno/Antinoo), English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner and Rooke’s conception for Ulisse is simple, direct and subtle. Richardot captures Penelope’s loneliness and constrained emotions...Furio Zanasi is a world-weary yet dignified Ulisse. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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J.s. Bach: Messe En Si Mineur
English Baroque Soloists (early music ensemble), Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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DVD Video + Blu-ray
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Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Michael Spyres, Sophia Burgos, Maurizio Muraro, Tareq Nazmi, Adèle Charvet
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
The orchestra plays superbly throughout, once again underscoring the advantage of employing period instruments to reveal Berlioz’s glittering, brilliant orchestration in all its full glory…[Spyres... —
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Coming soon. Opéra Comique Collection, Vol. 2
Carmen - Hamlet - Fortunio - La nonne sanglante - Lakmé
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Louis Langrée, Laurence Equilbey, Raphaël Pichon
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Bizet: Carmen
Anna Caterina Antonacci (Carmen), Andrew Richards (Don José), Anne-Catherine Gillet (Micaëla), Nicolas Cavallier (Escamillo)
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Adrian Noble
Gardiner injects plenty of period-instrument vim and vigour with his splendid Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, which takes Carmen back to her opéra comique roots. —
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Eroica - The day that changed music for ever
Nick Dear's award-winning period drama, starring Ian Hart as Beethoven, brings to life the first performance of the Eroica Symphony, an event that prompted Haydn to remark 'everything is different from today'.
Ian Hart, Tim Pigott-Smith, Claire Skinner, Jack Davenport, Frank Finlay, Fenella Woolgar, Lucy Akhurst, Leo Bill, Peter Hanson, Robert Glenister, Anton Lesser
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
'June 1804' says the legend at the film's opening.
Denis Matthews (in his Master Musicians volume) thought it was six months later that the Eroica was given a first run-through in the palace... — -
Special offer. Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Krystian Adam (Orfeo), Hana Blažíková (La Musica/Euridice), Anna Dennis (Ninfa), Kangmin Justin Kim (Speranza), Lucile Richardot (Messaggera), Francesca Boncompagni (Proserpina), Gianluca Burrato (Caronte/Plutone), Furio Zanasi (Apollo)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot...
strong contributors include Lucile Richardot (the Messenger) who gives a moving narration of Eurdice’s death in Act II, and the countertenor Kangmin Kim (Hope), who guides Orfeo down to Hell... —
