C Major
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An impulsive first movement with forensic attention to the grim reapers of the wind section…and a series of scarifying climaxes, the last and biggest of which is truly a ride to the abyss…[this]... —
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Karajan and Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Herbert von Karajan
an electrifying performance by a rejuvenated Berlin Philharmonic at the peak of its powers; it is also a visually stunning record of a masterclass in virtuoso conducting...[The bonus-feature]... —
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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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Rossini: La Cenerentola
Serena Malfi (Cenerentola), Juan Francisco Gatell (Ramiro), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Magnifico), Vito Priante (Dandini), Damiana Mizzi (Clorinda), Annunziata Vestri (Tisbe), Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Alejo Pérez, Emma Dante
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Music is the language of the heart and soul
A portrait of Mariss Jansons
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Concertgebouw Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Choir, Mariss Jansons
Most valuable is the footage of his father, conductor Arvid Jansons, and of his own early days as a Herbert von Karajan protege...Of Jansons's humanity and penetrating gifts as a conductor we... —
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Bernstein was periodically accused of self-indulgence in other repertoire. That’s a charge that could never stick in these joyous performances of three G major symphonies…Rather, there is grace,... —
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Special offer. Rossini: Il Turco in Italia
Erwin Schrott (Selim), Olga Perityatko (Fiorella), Nicola Alaimo (Geronio), René Barbera (Narciso), Pietro Spagnoli (Prosdocimo), Cecilia Molinari (Zaida), Pietro Adaini (Albazar)
Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini, Chorus of the Teatro Della Fortuna M. Agostini, Speranza Scappucci
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
Luca Salsi (Count Di Luna), Anna Netrebko (Leonora), Yusif Eyvazov (Manrico), Dolora Zajick (Azucena), Riccardo Fassi (Ferrando), Elisabetta Zizzo (Ines), Carlo Bosi (Ruiz), Dario Giorgele (Gypsy), Antonello Ceron (Messenger), Orchestra & Chorus of the Verona Arena, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Franco...
It’s not subtle, but then Trovatore isn’t exactly a subtle opera. In any case, an enticing cast makes it worthwhile...this is not a Leonora to be messed with. Netrebko is at her considerable... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Falstaff
Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Meg Page (Judith Schmid), Mistress Quickly (Yvonne Naef), Massimo Cavalletti (Ford), Eva Liebau (Nannetta), Javier Camarena (Fenton), Peter Straka (Dr. Cajus), Martin Zysset (Bardolfo), Davide Fersini (Pistola)
Orchester der Oper Zürich...
the conductor starts apparently quite steadily. But this lack of a certain flick and bounce is compensated for by the focus of Daniele Gatti...places on Verdi's radically forward-looking orchestration...The... —
