C Major
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Midsummer Night's Gala Grafenegg
Pretty Yende (soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Harriet Krijgh (cello)
Tonkunstler Orchestra, Yutaka Sado
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Hermann Prey: The Schubert Song Cycles
Hermann Prey, Helmut Deutsch (piano) & Leonard Hokanson (piano)
Schwanengesang sees Prey summoning all his energy and focus for a performance of visionary insight and concentration. Helmut Deutsch takes over [from Hokanson] for Winterreise, and immediately... —
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Pogorelich is at his idiosyncratic best...There are searing passages, but it is the poetry that shines through strongest. —
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There are some thrilling successes - the climaxes of both slow movements in particular —
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Special offer. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Raffaella Angeletti (Butterfly), Massimiliano Pisapia (Pinkerton), Claudio Sgura (Sharpless), Annunziata Vestri (Suzuki), Nino Batatunashvili (Kate Pinkerton), Thomas Morris (Goro), Enrico Cossutta (Principe Yamadori), Enrico Iori (Lo Zio Bonzo), Antonio Maria Golini (Yakusidé)
Fondatione Orchestra...
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Special offer. Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier
Hector Sandoval (André Chénier), Norma Fantini (Maddalena di Coigny), Scott Hendricks (Carlo Gérard), Tania Kross (Bersi), Rosalind Plowright (Madelon)
Wiener Symphoniker, Ulf Schirmer
The picture's watery location both suits Bregenz's lake stage and gives Warner space to layer Illica's actions...hugely recommended - a fine mix of spectacle of spectacle and intelligent interpretation. —
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Kinshasa Symphony
The awarded film about a symphony orchestra in the Congo
Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste, Armand Diangienda
it's the 'Ode to Joy' that drives the film forward as singers and musicians sweat to master Beethoven's great clamour. Beyond that, we see the people's lives, their city and their country -... —
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The performance is suffused with Goerne’s and Hinterhäuser’s peculiar rhetorical intensity and freedom —
