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DVD Video, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks (choir)
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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: Grand Opening Concert
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, 11.01.2017
Philippe Jaroussky, Sir Bryn Terfel, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Ensemble Praetorius, NDR Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Thomas Hengelbrock
There are plenty of musical highlights – oboist Kalev Kuljus’s exquisite ‘Pan’, from Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid; a lithe, light-textured finale from Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony;... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, DVD of the Month
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Lucia Popp (soprano), John van Kesteren (tenor), Hermann Prey (baritone)
Munich Radio Orchestra & Bavarian Radio Choir, Kurt Eichhorn
an imaginative staging... The main background set is a ruined church, against which the singers are seen in medieval costume, with action, sometimes surreal, invented to illustrate each section... —
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Beethoven: Mass in C Major
Genia Kühmeier (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (contralto), Maximilian
Schmitt (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone), Martin Angerer (trumpet)
Symphonieorchester und des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Instrumental colours are bright, exact and assertive. Were there a slider for musical rather than picture contrast, it would be set at maximum…Beethoven insisted that they keynotes of his Mass... —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies 7/8/9
Live from Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2012
Christiane Karg (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano), Michael Schade (tenor), Michael Volle (baritone)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tolzer Knabenchor, Riccardo Chailly
As you would expect from a handpicked band, the orchestral playing is consistently glorious. The contribution of the combined choirs is authoritative and there is a fine team of soloists, in... —
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Special offer. Lehár: Zigeunerliebe (Gipsy Love)
Janet Perry (Zorika), Ion Buzea (Józsi), Adolf Dallapozza (Jonel Bolescu), Colette Lorand (Ilona), Heinz Friedrich (Peter Dragotin), Kurt Großkurth (Mihály/Moschu)
Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Radio Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg
This was composed in 1909 and is a worthy equal to the composer’s other operettas in terms of imaginative content, visual ideas and instrumental colouring. After the sensational success of the... —
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Special offer. Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
Maximilian Schmitt (Evangelist), Tareq Nazmi (Christ), Christina Landshamer (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Tilman Lichdi (tenor), Krešimir Stražanac (bass-baritone / Pilate), Simona Brüninghaus (Maid), Andreas Burkhart (Petrus) & Moon Yung Oh / Andreas Hirtreiter (Servant)
Chor...
Schmitt’s Evangelist is a knowing, centred and sage creation, sung with a conviction underlined by emotional subtlety and ringing clarity of diction. A touch understated for some, perhaps, Tareq... —
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Andris Nelsons conducts Brahms
Lucerne Festival in Summer 2014 Opening Concert
Sara Mingardo (alto)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Choir, Andris Nelsons
As this finely directed, unfussily shot DVD shows, long and standing ovations confirmed Nelsons's triumph. We see his sentient hands and face incarnate and gleefully make visible the entire... —
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Anna Prohaska (soprano), Sara Mingardo (alto), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor) & René Pape (bass)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Choir & Swedish Radio Choir, Claudio Abbado
finely disciplined choral singing...If you desire a concert Requiem on DVD, this would be as good a purchase as any —
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Special offer. Mariss Jansons conducts Mahler Symphony No. 2
Anja Harteros (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (alto)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra), Mariss Jansons
I hadn't taken on board quite how expressive a master Jansons can be: the face and above all the eyes change in an instant through absorption in the Resurrection's drama...These are superlative... —
