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Cecilia Bartoli sings Mozart & Haydn
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Offer, Haydn: Il mondo della luna
Dietrich Henschel (Buonafede), Vivica Genaux (Ernesto), Bernard Richter (Ecclitico), Christina Landshamer (Clarice), Maite Beaumont (Lisetta), Markus Schafer (Cecco)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) & Tobias Moretti (director)
With the ever-responsive Concentus Musicus, [Harnoncourt] duly mines the comically disruptive potential of Haydn's music with unabashed glee... The comic leads are ideally cast...an inventive,... — More…
Awards:
Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
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Peter Schreier & Robert Holl
Soloists of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Concentus musicus Wien & Tölzer Knabenchor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Awards:
Salzburg Festival 2012: Ouverture Spirituelle
Sylvia Schwartz (soprano), Elisabeth Von Magnus (mezzo-soprano), Jeremy Ovenden (tenor) & Florian Boesch (baritone)
Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Ovenden has a pleasing voice, but seems incapable of singing a trill...Boesch is impressive though somewhat stentorian in 'Dona nobis pacem' — More…
Cecilia Bartoli - Haydn
Filmed at the Styriarte Festival, Graz, Austria, July 2001.
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Cecilia Bartoli - Haydn
Filmed at the Styriarte Festival, Graz, Austria, July 2001.
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Handel: Rodelinda
Danielle de Niese (Rodelinda), Bejun Mehta (Bertarido), Kurt Streit (Grimoaldo), Konstantin Wolff (Garibaldo), Malena Ernman (Eduige) & Matthias Rexroth (Unulfo)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
If the title-role heroine remains an enigma - half-Penelope, half-Medea - and is more kitten than tigress in Danielle de Niese's palely sung interpretation, Harnoncourt Jnr has done much to add... — More…
Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
Kurt Equiluz, Robert Holl, Thomas Moser, Anton Scharinger
Concentus musicus Wien & Tölzer Knabenchor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
With Kurt Equiluz an expressive Evangelist but Robert Holl a stolid Jesus, the soloists in this 1985 performance from Graz Cathedral are mixed, though Harnoncourt's Bach remains vivid. — More…