C Major
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Thoughts range from the philosophical to the finer points of interpretative detail that make key viewing for pianists —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - DVD Documentary
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Krassimira Stoyanova (Marschallin), Sophie Koch (Octavian), Mojca Erdmann (Sophie), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Annina), Günther Groissböck (Ochs), Adrian Eröd (Faninal), Kresimir Spicer (Valzacchi), Stefan Pop (Italian Singer)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst
Hooray for director Harry Kupfer!...[he] knows that Rosenkavalier is a supreme exercise in nostalgia...This is also Freud's Vienna. Stoyanova's Marschallin is a scrupulous analyst of her own... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Opera Choice
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Bizet: Carmen
Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena Tsallagova (Micaëla)
Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani
Holten says he’s keen to steer clear of the Spanish clichés on the one hand, and to examine Carmen as a real person on the other…It’s no earth-shattering insight but it does form the basis for... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Puccini: La Bohème
Irina Lungu (Mimì), Giorgio Berrugi (Rodolfo), Kelebogile Besong (Musetta), Massimo Cavalletti (Marcello), Benjamin Cho (Schaunard), Gabriele Sagona (Colline), Matteo Peirone (Benoît/Alcindoro), Cullen Gandy (Parpignol)
Teatro Regio di Torino, Gianandrea Noseda, Àlex Ollé
The voices could be more beautiful but it’s hard to think of a modern-dress production of La bohème that more perfectly captures the rhythm of the city in Puccini’s youthful Parisian romance…On... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Opera Choice
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Massenet: Don Quichotte
Gábor Bretz, David Stout, Anna Goryachova,
Wiener Symphoniker, Daniel Cohen, Mariame Clément
Cohen spins a deft line through a score that can be utterly bewitching...Gábor Bretz and Anna Goryachova, Quixote and Dulcinée, both make the most of their big numbers, his Act I serenade and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani
Saimir Pirgu (Ernani), Guanqun Yu (Elvira), Franco Vassallo (Don Carlo), Goran Jurić (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva), Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Lotte de Beer, Enrique Mazzola
Singing is what makes any Ernani recording or video, and conductor Enrique Mazzola lays a taut, solid foundation with a Verdian sensibility to the often expansive phrasing...Guanqun Yu (Elvira)... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto
Pene Pati (Mitridate), Ana Maria Labin (Aspasia), Angela Brower (Sifare), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Farnace), Sarah Aristidou (Ismene)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Satoshi Miyagi
Vocal virtuosity, which is crucial in such a piece, is best exemplified in the title-role by rising star tenor Pene Pati, who is up to every possible demand...Alert, lively playing from period-instrument... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta and The Nutcracker
Olesya Golovneva (Iolanta), Stefan Cerny (Rene), Georgy Vasiliev (Count Vaudemont), Andrei Bondarenko (Robert), Wiener Staatsballett, Orchester der Volksoper Wien, Lotte de Beer, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Omer Meir Wellber
Two important things you need to know: as this is the Volksoper, Iolanta is sung in German rather than Russian; and neither work is complete…de Beer does have something special to say about... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedAleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Marina Poplavskaya (Desdemona), Carlos Àlvarez (Iago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Stephen Costello (Cassio), Antonello Ceron (Roderigo), Mikhail Petrenko (Lodovico)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Riccardo Muti
Otello is played by Aleksandrs Antonenko, who is tremendous in all respects. His Desdemona is the lovely Marina Poplovskaya...an expert in suffering. Carlos Àlvarez's Iago and Stephen Costello's... —
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Building a Library, February 2012, First Choice (DVD & Blu-ray)
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedAleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Marina Poplavskaya (Desdemona), Carlos Àlvarez (Iago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Stephen Costello (Cassio), Antonello Ceron (Roderigo), Mikhail Petrenko (Lodovico)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Riccardo Muti
Otello is played by Aleksandrs Antonenko, who is tremendous in all respects. His Desdemona is the lovely Marina Poplavskaya...an expert in suffering. Carlos Àlvarez's Iago and Stephen Costello's... —
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Building a Library, February 2012, First Choice (DVD & Blu-ray)
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