Arthaus Musik
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Still Life at the Penguin café
A ballet performance with the Royal Ballet, 1989
Penguin Cafe Orchestra & Royal Ballet, Simon Jeffes
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Verdi: Ernani
Ramón Vargas (Ernani), Ludovic Tézier (Don Carlo), Alexander Vinogradov (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva), Svetla Vassilieva (Elvira), Karine Ohanyan (Giovanna), Maurizio Pace (Don Riccardo) & Gabriele Ribis (Jago)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Daniele Callegari, Jean-Louis Grinda (dir.)
This [DVD] confirms that Ernani fully deserves a place in the repertory, even if Grinda’s staging is conservative to the point of static…it’s the baritone who gets all the best tunes in Ernani... —
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20
Evelyn Hart (Odette / Odile) & Peter Schaufuss (Siegfried)
London Festival Ballet & Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Graham Bond
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Special offer. Rossini: Demetrio e Polibio
María José Moreno (Lisinga), Victoria Zaytseva (Demetrio-Siveno), Yijie Shi (Demetrio-Eumene) & Mirco Palazzi (Polibio)
Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini & Prague Chamber Choir, Corrado Rovaris (conductor) & Davide Livermore (stage director)
All the singers seem fairly young; I can best sum up my pleasure and admiration by thinking that Rossini singing with all its manifest bel canto demands is safe for at least a generation...[Zaytseva,... —
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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 —
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The Tchaikovsky Cycle Volume II
Lydia Shernikh (Tatyana) & Alexander Nenadovsky (Onegin)
The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev
Of all Tchaikovsky's symphonies, the Second needs the most kick and sheer charm - not qualities uppermost in Fedoseyev's superbly controlled interpretation. The soloists in a strong selection... —
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Reimann, A: Lear
Bo Skovhus (König Lear), Katja Pieweck (Goneril), Hellen Kwon (Regan), Siobhan Stagg (Cordelia) & Erwin Leder (Narr)
Philharmoniker Hamburg & Chor der Staatsoper Hamburg, Simone Young (conductor) & Karoline Gruber (stage director)
Their Lear's score is based on quick-moving accompanied recitative with underlaying or interposed instrumental mood and atmospheric descriptions...The energy and pace of the Reimann bear witness... —
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Special offer. The Art of Jiri Kilian - Car Men
Sabine Kupfeberg, Karel Hruska, David Krugel & Gioconda Barbuto
Nederlands Dans Theater
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Massenet: Werther
Keith Ikaia-Purdy, Armin Kolarczyk, Tero Hannula & Silvia Hablowetz
Badische Staatskapelle, Daniel Carlberg (conductor) & Robert Tannenbaum (director)
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Deon van der Walt, Ulrike Sonntag, Cornelius Hauptmann, Andrea Frei, Thomas Mohr, Patricia Rozario
Chor und Orchester der Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Wolfgang Gönnenwein, stage direction by Axel Manthey
