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New, Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
and Taking Risks: A documentary by Maria Stodtmeier
William Morgan (Tom Rakewell), Aphrodite Patoulidou (Anne Truelove), John Taylor Ward (Nick Shadow), Kate Howden (Baba the Turk), Erik Rosenius (Father Truelove), Ziad Nehme (Sellem)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Vocal Ensemble, Barbara Hannigan, Linus Fellbom
Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky
Michel Béroff (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, The English Bach Festival Chorus, Leonard Bernstein
Burton is excellent...at deftly intercutting the orchestral with Bernstein's riveting conducting, which conveys an amazing range of rhythmic and dynamic distinctions...The performance itself... — More…
Offer, An Evening with the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera
Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta, Alina Cojocaru, Leanne Benjamin, Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg, Luke Heydon & Carlos Acosta, Miyako Yoshida, Steven McRae, Marianela Nunez, Thiago Soares, Christopher Saunders, William Tuckett, Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Miah...
Offer, Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & The Firebird
Stravinsky & the Ballets Russes, 100th anniversary collector's edition
Ekaterina Kondaurova (Firebird), Ilya Kuznetsov (Ivan Tsarevich), Marianna Pavlova (The Princess) & Vladimir Ponomarev (Kachtcheï the Immortal), Alexandra Iosifidi (The Chosen One), Elena Bazhenova (300-Year-Old Woman) & Vladimir Ponomarev (Shaman)
Mariinsky Orchestra and Ballet, Valery...
it's rhythmically taut, but rather too polished to convey the earthy danger of the music that comes across strongly in the documentary...Still, the package as a whole is a good introduction to... — More…
Stravinsky: The Nightingale
Natalie Dessay (Le Rossignol), Marie McLaughlin (La cuisinière), Violeta Urmana (La Mort), Laurent Naouri (Le chambellan), Albert Schagigullin (L'empereur), Maxime Mikhailov (Le bonze), Hugo Simric (L'enfant)
Orchestre Et Chœur De L’opera National De Paris, James Conlon
…Stravinsky… would surely have been intrigued, occasionally irritated and ultimately spellbound by Christian Chaudet's vision. Using singers from the original 1999 recording, Chaudet has drawn... — More…
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Return of the Firebird
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Andris Liepa, Gediminas Taranda, Sergei Petukhov, Tatiana Beletskaya, Vitaly Breusenko
Bolshoi State Academic Theatre Orchestra, Russian Seasons Folk Company, Andrey Chistiakov
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Weissenberg has a remarkable talent, as the three Petrushka pieces prove, but he has often misused it, with harsh results. This sampling of his repertoire and his thoughts on it is worth seeing. — More…
this repertoire clearly plays to their strengths, the Debussy in particular. ...the recorded sound is fabulous. Emily Benyon’s flute contributions are a continual joy. La mer is, if anything,... — More…
