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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
Recommendedcontains 2 DVDs and Blu-ray disc
Mark Padmore (Evangelist), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Roderick Williams (Jesus)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Sellars (director)
Sellars is an intrinsically 'musical' director...Williams's Christ all but steals the show - even alongside tenor Mark Padmore whose Evangelist fearlessly interrogates as well as interprets the... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
2 DVD Videos + Blu-ray
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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Rolando Villazón (Ulysse), Magdalena Kožená (Pénélope), Katherine Watson (Junon), Kresimir Spicer (Eumée), Anne-Catherine Gillet (L’Amour/Minerve), Maarten Engeltjes (La Fragilité humaine/ Pisandre), Callum Thorpe (Le Temps/Antinoüs)
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Clément’s ‘pop vision’ of the opera muddles historical periods and genres in an attempt to convey the work’s timeless universality…Among the chaos, Magdalena Kožená retains her dignity, pouring... — 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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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Magdalena Kozená (Orphée), Madeline Bender (Eurydice) & Patricia Petibon (L'Amour)
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) & Brian Large (director)
In Robert Wilson's production neo-Expressionist gesture outlaws simple human emotions. But Gardiner and his orchestra are in fine fettle and Kožená an affecting Orphée despite the Frankenstein... — More…
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Waldbühne 2018 – Goodbye Sir Simon!
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle
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Europakonzert 2013 from Prague
From the Spanish Hall at the Prague Castle
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
The gilded setting...makes an odd accompaniment to Vaughan Williams's mystic visions and Beethoven's brooks. Yet with the playing of the Berlin Philharmonic's finesse, the hall's warm acoustic,... — More…
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Pierre Boulez conducts Mahler
Magdalena Kožená & Christian Gerhaher
The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Magdalena Kozena is an engaging performer; a sensitive one too, who tellingly alters her expressive demeanour...while Christian Gerhaher is rather more formal in his approach, they're a nicely... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 21/22 August 2010
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
there's no-one...who lifts the phrases so beguilingly (and without a baton) as does Abbado. You'll never see a first movement done with bigger smiles or more wide-eyed wonder, nor the poco adagio... — More…
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Mozart: The Great Operas Box Set
Laura Aikin (Konstanze), Edgaras Montvidas (Belmonte), Kurt Rydl (Osmin), Mojca Erdmann (Blonde), Michael Smallwood (Pedrillo), Steven Van Watermeulen (Bassa Selim), Lorenzo Regazzo (Figaro), Heidi Grant Murphy (Susanna), Peter Mattei (Count), Christiane Oelze (Countess), Christine Schäfer (Cherubino),...
