Arthaus Musik
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Stéphane Degout (Il Conte), Eleonora Buratto (Contessa), Christiane Karg (Susanna), Alex Esposito (Figaro), Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino), Katharine Goeldner (Marcellina), Umberto Chiummo (Bartolo), Krystian Adam (Basilio), Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
Bolton is observant in conveying the detail of the score, drawing clean, clear textures from the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra...Bösch’s production is more of a mixed quantity...Figaro is a... — More…
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Strauss, R: Feuersnot
Nicola Beller Carbone (Diemut), Dietrich Henschel (Kunrad), Alex Wawiloff (Schweiker von Gundelfingen) & Ruben Amoretti (Ortolf Sentlinger)
Orchestra, Chorus and Youth Chorus of the Teatro Massimo, Gabriele Ferro (conductor) & Emma Dante (stage director)
Ferro's conducting is perfectly decent, while there's lively work from the children's chorus especially, giving the lie to the idea that their part is too difficult to be practicable. It's difficult... — More…
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William Walton London Concert
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London, 1982
Kyung-Wha Chung (violin), Thomas Allen (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Andre Previn
Walton visibly moved - performances that were special indeed — More…
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The Art of Mats Ek - Giselle
Ana Laguna (Giselle), Luc Bouy (Albrecht), Yvan Auzely (Hilarion), Vanessa McIntosh (Bathilde) & Lena Wennergren (Myrtha)
Cullberg Ballet & Orchestre National de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Richard Bonynge
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Verdi: Falstaff
Bernd Weikl (Sir John Falstaff), Adelheid Fink (Mrs. Alice Ford), Wioletta Hebrowska (Mrs. Meg Page), Carlos Aguirre (Ford) & Yanyu Guo (Mrs. Quickly)
Orchestra of The Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Uwe Sandner (conductor) & Bernd Weikl (director)
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Mayr: Medea in Corinto
Nadja Michael (Medea), Ramón Vargas (Giasone), Alastair Miles (Creonte), Alek Shrader (Egeo), Elena Tsallagova (Creusa), Kenneth Roberson (Evandro), Laura Nicorescu (Ismene)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Hans Neuenfels (stage director)
Bolton conducts a performance in which there is no relaxing of the story of these unsavoury folk...[Michael] is on good vocal form, powerful on high and even using an occasional touch of chest-voice:... — More…
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Music in the Air
A History of Classical Music on Television
Featuring Glenn Gould, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Anna Netrebko, Igor Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Pierre Boulez, Sergiu Celibidache, Francis Poulenc, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Jonas Kaufmann, Franz Welser-Möst
Perhaps the more interesting television is found in the rarer moments of observation: of Stravinsky using facial expressions to conduct his Petrushka, or Yan Pascal Tortelier totally immersing... — More…
