Browse: DVD Video, Stravinsky (composer)
Offer, Mendelssohn in Verbier
Recorded at Verbier Festival, July 2009
Yuja Wang (piano), Kirill Troussov (violin), David Aaron Carpenter (viola), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Sol Gabetta (cello) & Leigh Mesh (double bass)
Verbier Festival Orchestra, Kurt Masur
The mixture here of seriousness, high spirits and virtuosity suits Mendelssohn well...Wang excels with her fingerwork, light pedaling and discreetly intelligent touches of rubato...No praise... — More…
Offer, Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim from the Teatro Colón
Piano Duos and Concert
Martha Argerich (piano) & Daniel Barenboim (conductor & piano)
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Return of the Firebird
Recommended
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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Offer, Sir Simon Rattle & Sol Gabetta
Recorded live at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, 2014, directed by Torben Schmidt Jacobsen
Sol Gabetta (cello)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle’s presence can be heard, and felt, in virtually every bar of the score: the way he moulds phrases, nudges details to the fore, bends the line, holds tight to a salient accompanying detail... — More…
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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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Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes
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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 & Ballet,...
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Every nuance [of The Rite] is crafted, each detail considered, yet there is still a sense of danger and visceral power…Rattle and the LSO are joined, usurped even, by the extraordinary Barbara... — More…
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Blu-ray + DVD Video
$18.75
Offer, Glyndebourne Diamonds
Five Great Opera Productions from the Glyndebourne Festival Opera
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Bernard Haitink, Raymond Leppard, John Pritchard
[On Falstaff] This performance is typical of the high standards of ensemble playing pertaining at Glyndebourne in the 1970s. — More…
Offer, New Year’s Eve Concert Silvesterkonzert 2017
Joyce DiDonato
Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle