C Major
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Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Camilla Tilling (soprano), Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (HR-Sinfonie Orchester), Paavo Järvi
In general, Järvi favours broad tempos - perhaps a little too broad in the opening movement of the Second Symphony...But the First Symphony...is wholly successful in its balance of detail and... —
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Special offer. Wagner: The Ring (highlights)
Das Rheingold
Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), John Daszak (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Matti Salminen (Fasolt), Stephen Milling (Fafner) Sabina von Walter (Freia), Anna Larsson (Fricka), Christa Mayer (Erda), Silvia Vázquez (Woglinde), Ann-Katrin...
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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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Wagner: Kaufmann Sings
Recorded at the Semper Oper Dresden, 2013
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Staatskapelle Dresden & Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Christian Thielemann
aside from his musical achievement [Kaufmann] has both natural presence and the ability to put over the content of the narrations in gripping but unhistrionic fashion...The music-making is absolutely... —
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Special offer. Rossini: La donna del lago
Salome Jicia (Elena), Juan Diego Flórez (Giacomo V), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Malcolm), Michael Spyres (Rodrigo), Marko Mimica (Douglas)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Michele Mariotti, Damiano Michieletto
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The Original Three Tenors
Including the new documentary 'From Caracalla to the World'
José Carreras (tenor), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Plácido Domingo (tenor)
Zubin Mehta
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Plácido Domingo at the Arena di Verona
Famous Arias by Verdi and Giordano
Soioa Hernandez (soprano), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Orchestra of the Arena di Verona
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Special offer. Weber: Der Freischütz
Andreas Schager (Max), Camilla Nylund (Agathe), Daniela Fally (Ännchen), Alan Held (Kaspar)
Wiener Staatsoper, Tomáš Netopil, Christian Räth
The pick of the cast, vocally, is soprano Camilla Nylund, who brings ample, shining tone and a finely sustained line to Agathe’s two solos. —
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This live video…shows what an exceptional performer of Mozart’s music he remains. The lyricism and strength of his voice are undiminished, while his legato and sensitivity to line continue to... —
