C Major
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Rejoice: Itzhak Perlman & Cantor Yitzchack Meir Helfgott
Itzhak Perlman & Cantor Yitzchack Meir Helfgott
The Klezmer Conservatory Band, Rejoice Chamber Orchestra, Russell Ger
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Special offer. Handel: Admeto, Re di Tessaglia HWV22
Marie Arnet (Alceste), David Bates (Trasimede), Kirsten Blaise (Antigona), Tim Mead (Admeto), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (Meraspe) & Andrew Radley (Orindo)
FestspielOrchester Gottingen & Mamu Dance Theatre, Nicholas McGegan (conductor) & Doris Dörrie (stage director)
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Special offer. Dvořák: Rusalka, Op. 114
Kristine Opolais (Rusalka), Klaus Florian Vogt (Prince), Nadia Krasteva (Foreign Princess), Gunther Groissböck (Goblin), Janina Baechle (Ježibaba), Ulrich Reß (Forester), Tara Erraught (Kitchen Boy), John Chest (Hunter)
Bayerischen Staatsoper, Tomas Hanus, Martin Kušej
Musically things are almost equally outstanding, certainly in the performance of the title role by Opolais, and in the exceptional conducting of Tomas Hanus. —
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Brahms: The Piano Concertos
Wiener Musikverein, 2015
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta
There's always something heroic about Rudolf Buchbinder's exploits...He never takes the easy route when an option exists to duck a score's extreme technical demands, and his readings are unfailingly... —
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Minkus: Don Quixote
Natalia Osipova, Leonid Sarafanov, Riccardo Massimi, Matthew Endicott, Giuseppe Conte
Teatro alla Scala, Alexander Titov
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Special offer. Boito: Mefistofele
René Pape (Mefistofele), Joseph Calleja (Faust), Kristine Opolais (Margherita), Karine Babajanyan (Elena), Heike Grötzinger (Marta), Andrea Borghini (Wagner), Rachael Wilson (Pantalis) & Joshua Owen Mills (Nerèo)
Bavarian State Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber, Roland Schwab
Pape revels in the grotesque vocal grandeuer of his suited and booted Mefistofle , with Joseph Calleja offering a thoughtful, sweet-toned Faust, painfully aware of the wrong turs he takes on... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Otello
José Cura (Otello), Dorothea Röschmann (Desdemona), Carlos Álvarez (Iago), Benjamin Bernheim (Cassio), Christa Mayer (Emilia), Georg Zeppenfeld (Lodovico), Csaba Szegedi (Montano), Gordon Bintner (Herald)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Cura’s Otello is in pretty good shape – he’s been singing the role for nearly two decades now – and his tenor can still deliver plenty of thrills…[Röschmann’s] is a moving, unusually feisty... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Otello
José Cura (Otello), Dorothea Röschmann (Desdemona), Carlos Álvarez (Iago), Benjamin Bernheim (Cassio), Christa Mayer (Emilia), Georg Zeppenfeld (Lodovico), Csaba Szegedi (Montano), Gordon Bintner (Herald)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Cura’s Otello is in pretty good shape – he’s been singing the role for nearly two decades now – and his tenor can still deliver plenty of thrills…[Röschmann’s] is a moving, unusually feisty... —
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Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
Hamburg State Opera, 2014
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Melissa Petit (soprano), Katja Pieweck (contralto), Manuel Günther (tenor), Wilhelm Schwinghammer (bass)
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Alessandro de Marchi
