Opus Arte
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Verdi: Aida
recorded live in October 2004, at the Royal Opera House La Monnaie/De Munt in Brussels
Norma Fantini (Aida), Marco Berti (Radamès), Ildiko Komlosi (Amneris), Mark Doss (Amonasro), Orlin Anastassov (Ramphis), Guido Jentjens (Il Re di Egitto), Michela Remor (Una Sacerdotessa), André Grégoire (Un Messaggero)
Symphony Orchestra and Choir of La Monnaie – De Munt, Kazushi Ono
As ever with Wilson's work, we are in a world and style influenced by Noh theatre and silent films with a kind of distanced, glacial, intermittently effective lighting plot. The effect is hieratical... —
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William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
Recorded live at Shakespeare’s Globe, June 2012
Liam Brennan (Orsino), Johnny Flynn (Viola), Stephen Fry (Malvolio), Paul Chahidi (Maria), John Paul Connolly (Antonio), Ian Drysdale (Priest/Valentine), Samuel Barnett (Sebastian), James Garnon (Fabian), Peter Hamilton Dyer (Feste), Colin Hurley (Sir Toby Belch), Roger Lloyd Pack (Andrew Aguecheek),...
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Christopher Marlowe: Dr Faustus
Recorded live at Shakespeare’s Globe, August 2011
Charlotte Broom, Michael Camp, Richard Clews, Nigel Cooke, Jonathan Cullen, Arthur Darvill, Robert Goodale, Paul Hilton, William Mannering, Sarita Piotrowski, Pearce Quigley, Iris Roberts, Beatriz Romilly, Felix Scott, Jade Williams & Chinna Wodu
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Tchaikovsky: LAC (after Swan Lake)
Anja Behrend (Le Cynge Blanc), April Ball (Le Cynge Noir), Stephan Bourgond (Le Prince), Alvaro Prieto (The King), Mimoza Koike (The Queen), Jeroen Verbruggen (Le Confident du Prince), Bernice Coppieters (Sa Majesté la Nuit)
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo & Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard...
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Sing, Precious Music
Five Centuries of Music from Magdalen
The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Mark Williams
The Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford has boasted a choir for nigh on five and a half centuries; and, recorded in the Chapel of Merton, this eclectic love letter to itself tracks a snapshot... —
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Woolf Works
Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano) & Gillian Anderson (speaker)
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels
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Shakespeare: Love’s Labours Won or Much Ado About Nothing
Recorded live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, March 2015
Sam Alexander (Don John), David Horovitch (Leonato), Edward Bennett (Benedick), Michelle Terry (Beatrice), Tunji Kasim (Claudio), Chris Nayak (Borachio), Flora Spencer-Longhurst (Hero) & Nick Haverson (Dogberry)
Royal Shakespeare Company, Simon Godwin (director)
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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Ulisse), Graciela Araya (Penelope), Toby Spence (Telemaco), Jaco Huijpen (Antinoo), Christopher Gillett (Pisandro), Diana Montague (Minerva), Brian Asawa (Anfinomo)
Baroque Ensemble Orchestra, Glen Wilson, stage direction by Pierre Audi
a masterpiece of controlled timing and patience —
