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Offer, Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids
Sean Panikkar (Dionysus), Russell Braun (Pentheus), Willard White (Cadmus), Nikolai Schukoff (Tiresias/ Calliope), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Agave/Venus), Károly Szemerédy (Captain/Adonis), Vera-Lotte Böcker (Autonoe/Proserpine), Anna Maria Dur (Beroe), Rosalba Guerrero Torres (Bassarid - Dancer)
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Offer, Poulenc: Le Voix Humaine & Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Barbara Hannigan (Elle), Ekaterina Gubanova (Judit), John Relyea (Bluebeard)
Paris Opera Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Krzysztof Warlikowski
A solid, uncontroversial staging of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle which works well – with two outstanding performers – bonded to a perverse one of Poulenc’s monodrama which does not. — More…
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Offer, Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
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Bejun Mehta (Orfeo), Eva Liebau (Euridice) & Regula Mühlemann (Amore)
Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 1704, Václav Luks
At its best, indeed, in the unadorned unfolding of hell and then heaven, the experience strikes fire in a manner crucially lacking in other filmed Orfeos. Unfortunately, not even this one comes... — More…
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Offer, Handel: Ariodante
Ann Murray (Ariodante), Joan Rodgers (Ginevra), Lesley Garrett (Dalinda), Gwynne Howell (The King of Scotland), Christopher Robson (Polinesso), Paul Nilon (Lurcanio), Mark Le Brocq (Odoardo)
English National Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & David Alden (stage director)
a moving, visually striking show, musically impressive. — More…
Offer, Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Camilla Nylund (Leonore), Alfred Muff (Don Pizarro) & László Polgár (Rocco)
Orchestra and Chorus of The Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Jonas Kaufmann and Camilla Nylund fearlessly [pack] every phrase with compellingly truthful shades of meaning. Harnoncourt's Beethoven is famously raw and earthy: strong on struggle and on the... — More…
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Offer, Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Soile Isokoski, Sophie Koch & Johan Botha
Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann, Sven-Eric Bechtolf
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Offer, Pierre Boulez Saal: Opening Concert
Anna Prohaska (soprano), Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor), Karim Said (piano), Yulia Deyneka (viola), Kian Soltani (cello), Boulez Ensemble
Offer, Sophia – Biography of a Violin Concerto
A Jan Schmidt-Garre Film
with Sofia Gubaidulina, Anne-Sophie Mutter & Gidon Kremer
Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle
it's the polarity of composer and performer that is the kernel of the film: Mutter cool, sveltely glamorous and severely practical, Gubaidulina looking more and more like a rumpled Babushka but... — More…
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Offer, Bach, J S: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV1007-1012
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Wen-Sinn Yang (violoncello)
Sound - Wilhelm Meister, Executive Producer - Korbinian Meyer, Directed for TV and Video by Ruth Käch
…the austere visual dimension can have the effect of focusing one's listening, not least as the interior of the 12th-century Servatiuskirche auf dem Streichen at Chemgau makes a fitting backdrop... — More…
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Offer, The Tchaikovsky Cycle Volume I
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Antonio Meneses (cello)
The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev
The young Tchaikovsky comes across here as an accomplished, often sober master rather than a spring-heeled individualist. Supreme cellist Meneses's more animated features grace the Rococo Variations. — More…
