Arthaus Musik
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Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat
Nacho Duato (Soldier), Aryeh Weiner (Devil), Gerald Tibbs (Alter Ego), Teresina Mosco (Mother), Fiona Lummis (Fiancée), Lionel Hoche (Friend of the Soldier) & Karin Heyninck (Princess)
Nederlands Dans Theater, David Porcelijn
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Jirí Kylián and the Nederlands Dans Theater
Shane Carroll, Nils Christe, Alida Chase, Gerald Tibbs, Marly Knoben, James Vincent, Sabine Kupferberg, Ric McCullough, Susan McKee, Leigh Matthews, Pauline Schenk, Peter Lawrence, Eve Walstrum, Michael Sanders, Joke Zijlstra, Glen Eddy, Leigh Warren
Nederlands Dans Theater
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Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Jonathan Best, Dawn Upshaw, Jerry Hadley, Monte Pederson
Camerata Academica, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Sylvain Cambreling, stage direction by Jörg Immendorff
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It's a long time since we've had such satisfying accounts of either work, free of any idiosyncra- sies, adeptly paced and in a clear, warm acoustic.
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José Carreras - Salzburg Recital 1989
José Carreras with a Special Spanish and Italian Repertoire including Scarlatti, Stradella, De Falla, Obradors & Gustavio
José Carreras & Martin Katz (piano)
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Richard Decker, Marek Wojciechowski, Iordanka Derilova, Ulf Paulsen, Kostadin Arguirov, Alexandra Petersamer, Jörg Brückner & Nico Wouterse
Dessau Philharmonic, Golo Berg (conductor) & Johannes Felsenstein (director)
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Shchedrin: The Seagull – Die Möwe
Maya Plisetskaya & Alexander Bogatyrev
Ballet and Orchestra of The Bolshoi Theatre, Alexander Lazarev
…I found myself surprisingly moved and involved. Plisetskaya has found a credible choreographic idiom closer to expressive mime than full-blown classical ballet, and though her astonishingly... —
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The straightforward documentary footage, including interviews and rehearsal and concert sequences, is spiced with staged, scripted vignettes of life in the choir, impressively authentic-looking... —
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Jean Rigby (Lucretia), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Male Chorus), Kathryn Harries (Female Chorus), Russell Smythe (Tarquinius), Richard van Allan (Collatinus), Alan Opie (Junius), Anne-Marie Owens (Bianca), Cathryn Pope (Lucia)
English National Opera Orchestra, Lionel Friend, stage direction by Graham...
Strong performances from cast members - notably Rigby's Lucretia and Opie's Junius - grace an impressive realisation of Vick's 1987 ENO production. —
