Capriccio
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Special offer. Bernstein: Mass
Vojtěch Dyk, Wiener Singakademie, Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Schülerinnen und Schüler der Opernschule der Wiener Staatsoper, Company of Music, Dennis Russell Davies
If it seemed that yet another version was de trop, Dennis Russell Davies trumps them all with a performance that can only be described as Bernsteinian, but in trumps. It’s huge, over-the-top,... —
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Weber: Peter Schmoll und seine nachbarn
Paul Armin Edelmann, Thorsten Grumbel, Ilona Revolskaya
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Roberto Paternostro
Stefan Cerny’s smoothly serene King gives pleasure; and the most satisfying singing comes from Jacquelyn Wagner, whose warm soprano (a mite occluded above the stave) drew me in to Euryanthe’s... —
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Mahler meets Hollywood meets Wagner. Hans Rott was a fine orchestrator – the concluding Pastoral Prelude should be heard more for its rollicking fugue alone. —
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Henze: Das Floß der Medusa
Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Sarah Wegener, Dietrich Henschel, Wiener Sängerknaben, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cornelius Meister
Written in 1968, Henze's darkly abrasive work for soloists, chorus and orchestra – with spoken German dialogue – vividly conveys the many horrors faced by the survivors of a notorious 1816 shipwreck... —
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Dvořák: Svatební Kosile, Op. 69
Simona Šaturová (soprano), Pavol Breslik (tenor) & Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Wiener Singakademie & Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cornelius Meister
Simona Šaturová is pure and innocent as the girl but thrills when she throttles up. Pavol Breslik is smooth and eager as her ghostly spouse, Adam Plachetka sage-like as the narrator. A nice... —
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Franz & Carl Doppler: The Complete Flute Music, Vol. 4
Claudi Arimany (flute), Shigenori Kudo (flute), Alan Branch (piano), Michel Wagemans (piano), Márta Gulyás (piano), Massimo Mercelli (flute), John Steele Ritter (piano), Walter Auer (flute)
Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Elche, Leonardo Martínez
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Harald Genzmer: Concertos
Oliver Triendl (piano), Patrick Demenga (cello), Jörgen van Rijen (trombone)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ariane Matiakh
A moderately cool but prolific adherent of the Hindemith school heard via three concertos. —
