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Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Misha Didyk (Herman), Tatiana Serjan (Lisa), Larissa Diadkova (Countess), Alexey Shishlyaev (Tomskij and Plutus), Alexey Markov (Yeletzki)
Kinderchor der Bayerischen Staatsoper & Chor and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Serjan is a vibrant, fearless Lisa...Hers is a voice with plenty of ‘blade’ when required, yet she can shade it beautifully...[Didyk] surprises with his baritonal depths here as Herman, as... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Choice
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Opera Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2017, Winner - Complete Opera Recording
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Misha Didyk, Alexey Markov, Vladimir Stoyanov, Svetlana Aksenova, Larissa Diadkova
Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
4It’s certainly wacky. But it’s followed through with rigorous brilliance…musically all is superb; this is the equal of Mariss Jansons’s first-rate Bavarian CD recording, with some of the same... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Opera Choice
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2018, Winner - Jahrespreis
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
RecommendedMaria Guleghina (Lisa), Gegam Grigorian (Hermann), Irina Arkhipova (Countess), Vladimir Chernov (Yeletsky), Nikolai Putilin (Tomsky), Olga Borodina (Polina), Vladimir Solodovnikov (Chekalinsky), Sergei Alexashkin (Surin), Evgeni Boitsov (Chaplitsky), Nikolai Gassiev (Major-Domo), Gennadi Bezzubenkov...
There are major problems with all the current sets of The Queen of Spades, but Valery Gergiev, one of the outstanding Tchaikovskians of the day, here coaxes from a thoroughly Western-sounding... —
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Building a Library, October 2011, First choice (single set)
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Misha Didyk, Alexey Markov, Vladimir Stoyanov, Svetlana Aksenova, Larissa Diadkova
Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
It’s certainly wacky. But it’s followed through with rigorous brilliance…musically all is superb; this is the equal of Mariss Jansons’s first-rate Bavarian CD recording, with some of the same... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Opera Choice
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2018, Winner - Jahrespreis
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Julia Varady (Lisa), Elena Obraztsova (Countess), Vladimir Atlantov (Hermann), Alexander Voroshilo (Tomsky), Bodo Brinkmann (Yeletsky), Ludmila Shemchuk (Pauline), Yoshihisa Yamaji (Chekalinsky), Karl Helm (Surin), Ulrich Reß (Chaplitsky), Alfred Kuhn (Narumov), Friedrich Lenz (Master of Ceremonies),...
[Varady is] in radiant voice here, convincingly youthful and appealing at her first encounter with Herman, throwing caution to the wind as she goes to her death in the Neva. Vladimir Atlantov's... —
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Vladimir Atlantov (Hermann), Maureen Forrester (Countess), Mirella Freni (Lisa), Sergei Leiferkus (Tomsky), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Yeletsky), Katherine Ciesinski (Polina), Ernesto Gavazzi (Chekalinsky), Julian Rodescu (Surin), Dennis Petersen (Chaplitsky), Richard Clement (Major-domo), Jorge Chamine...
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Wieslaw Ochman (Hermann), Stefka Evstatieva (Lisa), Penka Dilova (Countess), Ivan Konsulov (Count Tomsky), Yuri Mazurok (Prince Yeletsky), Stefania Toczyska (Pauline), Angel Petkov (Chekalinsky), Peter V Petrov (Surin), Mincho Popov (Chaplitsky), Mincho Popov (Major-domo), Stoil Georgiev (Narumov),...
Strongly cast and dramatically conducted by Emil Tchakarov, this Queen of Spades features Wieslaw Ochmann and Stefka Evstatieva’s particularly striking Hermann and Pauline. —
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Peter Gugalov (Hermann), Galina Vishnevskaya (Lisa), Regina Resnik (Countess), Dan Jordachescu (Tomsky), Bernd Weikl (Yeletsky), Hanna Schwarz (Pauline), Eva Dobrowska (Governess), Lucia Popp (Chloe)
Chœur Tchaikovsky
Maîtrise de Radio France
Orchestre National de France, Mstislav...
This DG version is the finest of the opera sets conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich...Vishnevskaya was still at her peak, here providing a strong and vibrant Lisa, not young-sounding but with... —
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Alexander Marinković (Herman), Jovan Gligorijević (Count Tomsky), Dušan Popović (Prince Yeletsky), Melanija Bugarinović (Countess), Valerija Heybal (Liza), Biserka Cvejić (Polina), Dragutin Petrović (Chekalinsky), Alexander Veselinović (Surin), Zivojin Iovanović (Chaplitsky), Vladimir Popović (Narumov),...
Bugarinović has a dark, almost contralto-ish tone and no Slavic wobble. —
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