Oehms
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Special offer. Weber: Oberon
Clemens Kerschbaumer (Oberon), Mirko Roschkowski (Huon), Dorothea Maria Marx (Rezia), Karola Pavone (Meermädchen), Grga Peroš (Sherasmin), Marie Seidler (Fatima), Roman Kurtz (narrator)
Chor und Extrachor des Stadttheater Giessen & Philharmonisches Orchester Giessen, Michael Hofstetter
Dorothea Maria Marx is an appealing Rezia...her soprano is light and clear, and her fairly tight vibrato adds to the impression of a young innocent girl. Hüon is a demanding role that cries... —
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Record Review, 13th July 2019, Record of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Olessa Golovneva (Iolanta), Alexander Vinogradov (René), Andrei Bondarenko (Robert), Dmytro Popov (Vaudémont), Vladislav Sulimsky (Ibn-Hakia), John Heuzenroeder (Alméric), Marc-Olivier Oetterli (Bertrand), Dalia Schaechter (Marta), Justyna Samborska, Marta Wryk (Laura)
Gürzenich Orchestra of...
as a young innocent, Golovneva's Iolanta is preferable to the fuller, darker soprano of Netrebko…Vinogradov's soft-grained bass is rock-solid and on magnificent form…Popov is in mellifluous,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Opera
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Special offer. Heinrich Marschner: Hans Heiling
Rebecca Teem (Queen of Earth Spirits), Heiko Trinsinger (Hans Heiling, her son), Jessica Muirhead (Anna, his bride), Bettina Ranch (Gertrude, her mother), Jeffrey Dowd (Konrad), Karel Martin Ludvik (Stephan, his friend), Hans-Günter Papirnik (Niklas
Essener Philharmoniker, Opernchor des Aalto-Theaters...
Beermann finds the sweet spot between dramatic overdrive and caressing sweetness: the Essener Philharmoniker play vividly, and the tension stays high…Trinsinger’s youthful tone is likeably virile,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Special offer. Flotow: Martha
Maria Bengtsson, Katharina Magiera, Barnaby Rea, AJ Glueckert, Franz Mayer
Frankfurter Opern-und Museumsorchester & Chor und Extra-Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Sebastian Weigle
The cast seems a just mixture of novelty and experience, with Bengtsson’s note-spinning both pure and dramatically apt, and Rea managing the non-part of Tristan…with aplomb. Glueckert’s tenor... —
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Opera, August 2018, Recording of the Month
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Albrecht’s players establish a magical silkiness in the Prelude, delicately reflect Isolde’s arousal after the horn call in Act II and create a hallucinatory momentum for the lovers’ mounting... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Orchestral Choice
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This is a marvellous collaboration with two viols and lute from Marc Lewon’s Ensemble Leones...Secular and sacred tracs are affectionately interleaved in an evocative sequence... Sensitively... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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Glanert: Oceane
Maria Bengtsson, Stephen Bronk, Doris Soffel, Albert Pesendorfer, Nicole Haslett, Nikolai Schukoff, Christoph Pohl, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles
Glanert’s music renders the action with captivating vividness. The opera is fabulously populated...And the fit of voices to roles is clearly evident. Maria Bengtsson’s exquisite vocal qualities—crystalline... —
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Opera, June 2020
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Composer of the Year
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Special offer. Mascagni: Zanetto
Narine Yeghiyan, Yajie Zhang, Chor der Berliner Operngruppe, Orchester der Berliner Operngruppe, Felix Krieger
though Zhang is distinguishable for her mezzo colouring, both voices sound remarkably alike as if they were intentionally cast as alter egos. Conductor Felix Krieger creates a steady stream... —
