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New, 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
John Relyea’s rich bass and Ekaterina Gubanova’s refulgent mezzo have no problems with the Bartók, and depict their emotional development with precision. Likewise Barbara Hannigan as Elle, whose... — More…
Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira
Michael Spyres (Aureliano), Jessica Pratt (Zenobia), Lena Belkina (Arsace) & Raffaella Lupinacci (Publia)
Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Will Crutchfield (conductor) & Mario Martone (stage director)
[This production] is excellent and the singing on a very high level. The title role has the least interesting music, but Michael Spyres…makes what he can of it…[the lovers] are sung by Lena Belkina... — More…
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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…
New, Offer, Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies & Concertos
Orchestra & Chorus of the Marinksy Theatre, Valery Gergiev
Bach, J S: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV1007-1012
Recommended
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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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
These DVDs of La Scala performances...are most notable for showcasing this conductor's supreme command of the epic lyricism that goes to the heart of the Wagner style...while Cassiers achieves... — More…
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Offer, The Mozart Glyndebourne Collection
Helena Dose (Fiordiligi), Sylvia Lindenstrand (Dorabella), Daniele Perriers (Despina), Anson Austin (Ferrando), Thomas Allen (Guglielmo), Frantz Petri (Don Alfonso), Benjamin Luxon (Don Giovanni), Stafford Dean (Leporello), Horiana Branisteanu (Donna Anna), Rachel Yakar (Donna Elvira), Leo Goeke (Don...
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro captures Peter Hall’s delightful and wonderfully vivid production. Cast from strength, it is presided over with great sympathy by conductor John Pritchard — More…
Verdi: Rigoletto
Marcelo Álvarez (Il Duca), Carlos Álvarez (Rigoletto), Inva Mula (Gilda), Julian Konstantinov (Sparafucile), Nino Surguladze (Maddalena), Mercé Obiol (Giovanna), Stanislav Shvets (Monterone), Joan Martin-Royo (Marullo), on Plazaola (Borsa)
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Jesus-Lopez Cobos (conductor)...
[Vick's production] has an ingeniously designed revolve at the centre of the set...The performance is strongly conducted by Jesus Lopez-Cobos, and Inva Mula again makes a memorable and moving... — More…
Reimann, A: Die Gespenstersonate
Hans Günter Nöcker (Der Alte), Martha Mödl (Die Mumie), Horst Hiestermann (Der Oberst), David Knutson (Der Student Arkenholz), Gudrun Sieber (Das Fräulein), Donald Grobe (Johansson) & William Dooley (Bengtsson)
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie & Ensemble Modern, Friedemann Layer (conductor)...
Aribert Reimann's chamber score for Strindberg's far-out Ghost Sonata fantasy is sensitive and excellently performed. — More…