DVD Video, Christina Landshamer (soprano)
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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…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, DVD of the Month
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abundant virtues...a sense of naturally flowing tempi, an ear for inner parts within the whole, a vitality that captures the pristine glow of this most innocent of all Mahler symphonies. Chailly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Blu-ray of the Month
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Maximilian Schmitt (Tamino), Christina Landshamer (Pamina), Thomas Oliemans (Papageno), Brindley Sherratt (Sarastro), Íride Martínez (Königin der Nacht), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Monostatos), Nina Lejderman ((Papagena)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Marc...
Freshness of vision, emotional openness, genuine ensemble theatricality, a robustly physical sense of adventure humorous and serious (but never portentous) by turns, and an underlying directorial... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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C P E Bach: The 1786 Charity Concert - A Revival
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (alto), Lothar Odinius (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (bass)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann
Rademann captures the elusive aesthetic of music from the years between the Baroque and Classical styles...The camera work is nicely paced, sometimes musically sensitive, sometimes catching... — More…
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Sara Jakubiak (Agathe), Christina Landshamer (Aennchen), Georg Zeppenfeld (Kaspar), Michael König (Max), Adrian Eröd (Ottakar), Albert Dohmen (Kuno), Andreas Bauer (Hermit), Sebastian Wartig (Kilian)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Christian Thielemann
This is supple, carefully sifted music-making, beautifully paced...The vocal casting is as precise and well calculated as the overall approach but the production seems to nervous of the work... — More…
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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... — More…
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Special offer. Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor) & Andreas Wolf (bass-baritone)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Concerto Köln, Peter Dijkstra
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (alto), Wolfram Lattke (tenor) & Luca Pisaroni (bass)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Dresdner Kammerchor, Herbert Blomstedt
Blomstedt is never bent on point-scoring didacticism, His is a truthful account; prayerful, reverential, intent on welding the disparate movements into a caressing over-arching entity… Among... — More…
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Stefan Kahle (alto), Wolfram Lattke (tenor), Martin Lattke (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Gotthold Schwarz (bass)
St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, St. Thomas Cantor Georg Christoph Biller
This is a performance which has Bach liturgically wired into its DNA...Biller's direction exudes profound integrity and commitment, the chorales in particular shaped by a deeply-felt inevitability...this... — More…
