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Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
Yo-Yo Ma (solo cello/director), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Peter Serkin (piano), Emanuel Ax (piano), James Taylor (vocals/guitar)
Boston Pops Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons, David Zinman,...
If this all sounds rather eclectic, well, yes it is – but it all hangs together beautifully as a celebration of the festival’s diversity and joie de vivre. The performance styles, too, come... —
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Special offer. Puccini: Tosca
Sonya Yoncheva (Tosca), Vittorio Grigolo (Cavaradossi), Roman Burdenko (Scarpia), Carlo Bosi (Spoletta), Giorgi Manoshvili (Angelotti), Giulio Mastrototaro (Sacristan)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Arena Di Verona, Hugo de Ana, Francesco Ivan Ciampa
In all respects, she is a sensation in this role: truly one of the great Toscas of our time, and the DVD surely deserves a place in the Puccini fan’s collection on that count alone...The production... —
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Salzburg Opening Concert 2008 with Boulez & Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Boulez paints the often delicate colours of Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales with subtlety, the Vienna Philharmonic's woodwind showing their finesse. —
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Special offer. Handel: Admeto, Re di Tessaglia HWV22
Tim Mead (Admeto), Marie Arnet (Alceste), William Berger (Ercole), Andrew Radley (Orindo), David Bates (Trasimede), Kirsten Blaise (Antigona), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (Meraspe)
Gottingen Festival Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan
McGegan conducts the Festival Orchestra with a sure sense of style and no exaggerated stylisation...[Dörrie] has succeeded in creating a distinctive setting, satisfying the eye and yet allowing... —
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4-6
and Documentaries about each Symphony
Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
The performances, the Vienna Philharmonic on top form, can't help sounding wonderful...oddly, it is the discussions that are the most enjoyable elements in this ambitious set. —
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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. Verdi: Alzira
(concert performance)
Junko Saito (Alzira), Francesco Facini (Alvaro), Thomas Gazheli (Gusmano), Joshua Lindsay (Ovando), Ferdinand von Bothmer (Zamoro), Yasushi Hirano (Ataliba), Anna Lucia Nardi (Zuma), Joe Tsuchizaki (Otumbo)
Orchestra di Bolzano e Trento, Gustav Kuhn
All act with conviction as they are singing and bring good expression and diction to their roles...In the title role, Junko Saito sings with warm expressive tone, good diction and also acts... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Alfred Reiter (Sarastro), Norman Reinhardt (Tamino), Ana Durlovski (Konigin der Nacht), Bernarda Bobro (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Denise Beck (Papagena)
Prague Philharmonic Choir & Wiener Symphoniker, Patrick Summers
For visual effectiveness this new DVD and Blu-ray has no competition among a rich field of Magic Flutes...Musically, too, it is never less than good, and the Tamino of Norman Reinhardt and the... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Luisa Miller
Giorgio Surjan (Il Conte di Walter), Marcelo Alvarez (Rodolfo), Francesca Franci (Federica), Rafal Siwek (Wurm), Leo Nucci (Miller), Fiorenza Cedolins (Luisa), Katarina Nikolic (Laura), Angelo Villari (Un Contadino)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Donato Renzetti
Cedolins is wonderfully precise in negotiating the trills and staccatos of Luisa's music...Alvarez is quite excellent as Rodolfo...His is a warm, passionate performance, thrilling singing but... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Luisa Miller
Giorgio Surjan (Il Conte di Walter), Marcelo Alvarez (Rodolfo), Francesca Franci (Federica), Rafal Siwek (Wurm), Leo Nucci (Miller), Fiorenza Cedolins (Luisa), Katarina Nikolic (Laura), Angelo Villari (Un Contadino)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Donato Renzetti
Cedolins is wonderfully precise in negotiating the trills and staccatos of Luisa's music...Alvarez is quite excellent as Rodolfo...His is a warm, passionate performance, thrilling singing but... —
