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Special offer. Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1-5
Sybilla Rubens, Claudia Mahnke & Christoph Prégardien
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie & Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Christoph Poppen
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Special offer. Pfitzner: Palestrina
Peter Bronder (Palestrina), Britta Stallmeister (Ighino), Claudia Mahnke (Silla), Wolfgang Koch (Carlo Borromeo), Johannes Martin Kranzle (Giovanni Morone), Frank van Aken (Bernardo Novagerio), Alfred Reiter (Kardinal Christoph Madruscht/Papst Pis IV), Magnus Baldvinsson (Der Kardinal van Lothringen),...
It's a well-played ensemble performance under a wise old stage-director (Harry Kupfer)...Frankfurt's cast has plenty of gutsy ecclesiastical characters in the Council scene...Koch is a worthy... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Lohengrin
Michael König (Lohengrin), Camilla Nylund (Elsa), Robert Hayward (Telramund), Michaela Schuster (Ortrud), Falk Struckmann (Heinrich the Fowler), Daniel Schmutzhard (Herald)
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra & Choir and Extra Choir of the Frankfurt Opera, Bertrand de Billy
The singing is on a generally fairly high level, with exceptionally good enunciation of the text from everyone...The chorus and the orchestra cope well with Bertrand de Billy's demands on them:... —
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Ferrandini: Catone in Utica
Kobie van Rensburg, Robert Crowe, Simone Schneider, Johnny Maldonado, Florian Simson
Ensemble Neue Hofkapelle Munich, Christoph Hammer
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Special offer. Busoni: Doktor Faust
Wolfgang Koch, Steven Humes, John Daszak, Raymond Very & Catherine Naglestad
Bavarian State Orchestra & Choir and Additional Choir of the Bavarian State Opera, Tomas Netopil
This 'live' 2008 Bavarian State Opera performance is strongly cast. Koch gives a compelling account of the title role, and Catherine Nagtelstad as the Duchess of Parma is notably superior to... —
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Mendelssohn's thirteen string symphonies, written between the ages of 12 and 24 as composition exercises, are not often performed; but as this set from the Lucerne Festival Strings under Achim... —
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This album complements Singer Pur’s earlier recording of the Petrarch madrigals of Musica Nova, and the two together make for delightful listening. The motets are characterised by clear, unfussy... —
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Spohr: The Alchemist
Bernd Weikl (Don Feliz de Vasquez - Der Alchymist), Moran Abauloff (Inez), Jörg Dürmüller (Don Alonzo de Castros), Jan Zinkler (Don Ramiro de Loxa), Susanna Putters (Paola), Mike Garling (Lopez), Linda Foerster (Inquisitor), Romuald Jasinski & Stantcho Velitchkov (Zwei Gypsies)
Braunschwieg...
Bernd Weikl seizes with both hands the opportunities offered by the Alchemist's eccentric character...The part is well written, and very well sung...Spohr's orchestration is, as always, imaginatively... —
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Special offer. Humperdinck: Königskinder
Daniel Behle, Amanda Majeski, Nikolay Borchev, Julia Juon, Magnus Baldvinsson, Martin Mitterrutzner & Chiara Bauml
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra & Choir of the Frankfurt Opera, Sebastian Weigle
though none of the Frankfurt performers is a household name, they are obviously a team and Sebastian Weigle, steeped in Wagner, conducts superbly. —
