Accentus Music
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
Denis Matsuev (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
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Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Joyce DiDonato (Romeo), Olga Kulchynska (Giulietta), Benjamin Bernheim (Tebaldo), Roberto Lorenzi (Lorenzo), Alexei Botnarciuc (Capellio), Gieorgij Puchalski (The companion)
Philharmonia Zürich & Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Christof Loy (stage director)
In a central work of the bel canto canon, it is crucial that vocal values are scrupulously maintained – and here they certainly are, with an even and technically excellent cast, who understand... — More…
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Weinberg: Trumpet Concerto & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Baiba Skride (violin)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
This Fifth might even be caricatured as vaguely retro...The Leipzig team works hard to invigorate old-school expressive intentions with precise, sometimes glorious playing...The concerto may... — More…
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CD
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The Philharmonics
Waltzes By Johann Strauss. Arranged by Schoenberg, Berg & Webern
The Philharmonics
the DVD itself is a colourful evocation of old Vienna that admirably demonstrates the power of DVD to add positively to what one merely hears on CD...The five Strauss waltzes are proficiently... — More…
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Puccini: La Bohème
Gal James (Mimì), Aquiles Machado (Rodolfo), Carmen Romeu (Musetta), Massimo Cavalletti (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (Colline), Mattia Olivieri (Schaunard) & Matteo Peirone (Benoît)
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana & Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Riccardo Chailly
Chailly works musical miracles in the pit, but up stage, apart from Israeli soprano Gal James's tenderly phrased Mimi, the singing is coarse — More…
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Pärt: Adam's Passion
Michalis Theophanous, Lucinda Childs
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste
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The piece that fits well with the New World is the concert overture, Othello…Nelsons conveys the work’s turbulent passions, with marvellous control over dynamics and articulation…the sense of... — More…