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Special offer. Bellini: Norma
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Gregory Kunde (Pollione), Ekaterina Gubanova (Adalgisa), Raymond Aceto (Oroveso), Ana Puche (Clotilde) & Francisco Vas (Flavio)
Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Renato Palumbo (conductor) & Kevin Newbury (stage director)
[Radvanovsky’s] ‘Casta diva’ is dispatched with juicy flair, but it’s in the preceding lines tht the soprano really shows her mettle. Here Radvanovsky astutely establishes Norma’s divided loyalties... —
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Special offer. Offenbach: La Belle Helène
Jennifer Larmore (Hélène), Jun-Sang Han (Pâris), Peter Galliard (Ménélas), Viktor Rud (Agamemnon), Rebecca Jo Loeb (Oreste), Dovlet Nurgeldiyev (Achille), Sergiu Saplacan (Ajax premier), Benjamin Popson (Ajax deuxième), Christian Miedl (Calchas), Anat Edri (Bacchis), Renate Spingler (Léoena), Gabriele...
La belle Hélène takes a trip back to the 1960s. You can almost smell the patchouli oil and feel the crushed velvet…Jennifer Larmore is a handsome Hélène…her singing is careful and characterful…[Jun-Sang... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Macbeth
Leo Nucci (Macbeth), Enrico Iori (Banco), Sylvie Valayre (Lady Macbeth), Roberto Iuliano (Macduff), Tiziana Tramonti (Dama di Lady Macbeth), Nicola Pascoli (Malcolm), Enrico Turco (Il Medico), Davide Ronzoni (L'Araldo), Riccardo di Stefano (Un Domestico) & Noris Borgogelli (Il Sicario)
Orchestra...
What makes this production so rewarding are the utterly compelling performances of the Macbeths, Shakepearian in intensity...[Nucci's] Macbeth is a deeply thoughtful portrayal...Valayre is up... —
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Special offer. Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
Ruggero Raimondi (Mosè), Isabelle Kabatu (Sinaide), Bogdan Mihai (Elisero), Filippo Polinelli (Faraone), Luciano Ganci (Amenofi), Giovanni Sebastiano Sala (Aufide), Christian Stainieri (Osiride)
Orchestra and Choir Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, Francesco Quattrocchi
At the time of the performances [Raimondi] was 73...The voice, as recorded, remains as mellow as a well-cellared oloroso, with little loss of body or structure. Tenor Luciano Ganci, a singer... —
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Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace
Pauline Rathmann, Yumeji Matasufuji, Leah-Marian Jones, Valentino Worlitzsch
World Orchestra for Peace, World Choir for Peace, Karl Jenkins
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Brahms: Double Concerto
Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
The real highlight of this well-produced DVD is the Tchaikovsky, which is a winner from start to finish. —
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Brahms: Double Concerto
Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
The real highlight of this well-produced DVD is the Tchaikovsky, which is a winner from start to finish. —
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R. Strauss: Four Last Songs & An Alpine Symphony
Anja Harteros (soprano)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
[The performance of Eine Alpensinfonie] underlines primarily the work's philosophical underpinnings and its symphonic logic; others might offer more thrills (and spills), but few offer such... —
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Special offer. Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
Ruggero Raimondi (Mosè), Isabelle Kabatu (Sinaide), Bogdan Mihai (Elisero), Filippo Polinelli (Faraone), Luciano Ganci (Amenofi), Giovanni Sebastiano Sala (Aufide), Christian Stainieri (Osiride)
Orchestra and Choir Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, Francesco Quattrocchi
At the time of the performances [Raimondi] was 73...The voice, as recorded, remains as mellow as a well-cellared oloroso, with little loss of body or structure. Tenor Luciano Ganci, a singer... —
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Leonard Bernstein conducts Debussy
Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Leonard Bernstein
In Debussy's best-known orchestral works, Bernstein conveys his every last wish —
