Arthaus Musik
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Daniel Barenboim - Or the Power of Music
Daniel Barenboim (piano), Michael Barenboim, Martha Argerich, Waltraud Meier, Wim Wenders, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, Boulez Ensemble, Anna Prohaska, Jörg Widmann (clarinet)
Zubin Mehta
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Britten‘s War Requiem: 50th anniversary in Coventry
Erin Wall (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus & CBSO Youth Chorus, Andris Nelsons
The three soloists are not, perhaps, quite as eminently as the originals, but they're all excellent...[Nelsons's] un-English reading, more tautly controlled and vigorous than Britten's own,... — More…
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Lintu has always had an interesting analytical perspective on the symphonies but he delves even further here...To describe this as an important snapshot of orchestral Helsinki in 2015 is to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, DVD of the Month
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Rossini: La gazza ladra
Carlos Feller (Fabrizio), Nucci Condò (Lucia), David Kuebler (Giannetto), Ileana Cotrubaș (Ninetta), Brent Ellis (Fernando) & Alberto Rinaldi (Mayor)
Chorus of the Oper Koln & Gurzenich Orchester Koln, Bruno Bartoletti (conductor) & Michael Hampe (stage director)
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A Recital With Renée Fleming
Vienna At The Turn Of The 20th Century
Renée Fleming (soprano) & Maciej Pikulski (piano)
Fleming builds up a great sense of pathos in 'Um Mitternacht' and delivers a deeply affecting account of 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' supported by some wonderfully sensitive phrasing... — More…
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Bacchetti tends not to go in for blockbuster virtuoso repertoire, and the Liszt selection is tuneful and played with restrained expression, leading up Louis Diémer’s lovely Nocturne Op.15. Diémer... — More…
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Mariss Jansons conducts Beethoven & Strauss
Live from The Philharmonie Im Gasteig, Munich, 2011
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
[Uchida's] firmness and clarity of articulation [are] ideal, every phrase beautifully shaped as well as placed carefully within the larger context of each movement as a whole...Jansons is inclined,... — More…
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Wagner: Rienzi
Torsten Kerl (Rienzi), Kate Aldrich (Adriano) & Camilla Nylund (Irene)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sebastian Lang-Lessing (conductor) & Philipp Stölzl (stage director)
no relevant filmic reference...is left unquoted in design or acting. Torsten Kerl's considerable vocal and visual impersonation of the title-role has absorbed, and reproduces, Chaplin's The... — More…
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Mirella Freni: A Life Devoted to Opera
Mirella Freni (soprano) featuring Plácido Domingo, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Herbert Von Karajan & Luciano Pavarotti