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DVD Video, Rimsky Korsakov (composer)
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve
Julia Muzychenko, Enkelejda Shkoza, Georgy Vasiliev, Andrei Popov, Alexey Tikhomirov, Anthony Robin Schneider, Chor de Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern-Und Museumorchester, Christof Loy, Sebastian Weigle
Loy masses his choral scenes with gusto, and draws the characters with compassion and wit...this recording should make new friends for an opera that ought to be much more than just a Russian... —
Awards:
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Rimsky Korsakov: The Snow Maiden
Aida Garifullina (Snowmaiden), Yuriy Mynenko (Lel), Martina Serafin (Kupava), Maxim Paster (Tsar Berendy), Thomas Johannes Mayer (Mizguir)
Opéra national de Paris, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Dmitri Tcherniakov
Tatarnikov is sensitive to the score’s brilliant colours and vividly imagined textures, drawing on the fine playing of the Paris Opera Orchestra and the enthusiastic engagement – both vocal... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel
Dmitry Ulyanov (Tsar Dodon), Nina Minasyan (The Queen of Shemakha), Andrey Popov (The Astrologer), Margarita Neksarova (Amelfa), Mischa Scelomiansky (General Polkan)
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra National de Lyon, Daniele Rustioni, Barrie Kosky
the music is superbly sung and acted by an all-Russian cast...Meanwhile the brilliance and colour of Rimsky-Korsakov’s unusual harmonies and orchestration register impressively, with Rustioni... —
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Opera, October 2022, Disc of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Rimsky Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia
Svetlana Ignatovich (Fevroniya), John Daszak (Grishka Kuterma), Vladimir Vaneev (Prince Yuriy Vsevolodovich), Maxim Aksenov (Prince Vsevolod Yuryevich), Ante Jerkunica (Bedyay), Vladimir Ognovenko (Burunday), Alexey Markov (Fyodor Poyarok) & Mayram Sokolova (Page)
Netherlands Philharmonic...
If the visual result negates the opera’s poetry, the musical performance provides compensation. Albrecht draws consistently brilliant orchestral playing and the chorus is excellent. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - DVD Performance
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Special offer. Zubin Mehta Live in front of the Grand Palace
Ilya Konovalov (violin) and Roman Spitzer (viola)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
The most striking aspects of this concert are the energy and purpose of Mehta's conducting and the undoubted warmth of the Israel Philharmonic's string section which plays its heart out in the... —
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Special offer. The Stone Guest and Mozart & Salieri
Alexei Maslennikov (Mozart), Artur Eizen (Salieri), L. Novikov (Violinist), Vladimir Atlantov (Don Juan), Tamara Milashkina (Donna Anna), Alexander Vedernikov (Leporello), Tamara Sinyavskaya (Laura), Vladimir Valaitis (Don Carlos), Vladimir Filippov (A Monk/Statue of the Commander), Andrei Sokolov,...
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Special offer. Rimsky Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride
Live performance from 1983
Lydia Kovaleva (Marfa), Yuri Grigoriev (Grigory Gryaznoy), Boris Morozov (Malyuta Skuratov), Evgeny Shapin (Ivan Sergeyevich Likov), Nina Terentieva (Lyubasha), Konstantin Pustovoi (Yelisey Bomelius), Larissa Yurchenko (Domna Ivanovna Saburova), Marina Shutova (Dunyasha), Nina Grigorieva (Petrovna)
Orchestra...
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Rimsky Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or
Pavlo Hunka, Alexey Dolgov, Konstantin Shushakov, Alexander Vassiliev, Agnes Zwierko, Alexander Kravets, Venera Gimadieva, Sheva Tehoval, Sarah Demarthe
Orchestre Symphonique et Chœurs de la Monnaie, Alain Altinoglu, Laurent Pelly
It’s musically superb…And it’s still extremely funny, thanks not least to British-Ukrainian bass Pavlo Hunka…Appropriately stunning, though, is the Queen Venera Gimadieva…who has exactly the... —
