Ekaterina Semenchuk
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Verdi: Aida
RecommendedAnja Harteros (Aida), Jonas Kaufmann (Radamès), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Amneris), Ludovic Tezier (Amonasro), Erwin Schrott (Ramfis), Marco Spotti (Il Re d'Egitto), Paolo Fanale (Un Messaggero), Eleonora Buratto (Sacerdotessa), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Anja Harteros can boast both the high-octane tone and the necessary level of dramatic expression to make Aida credibly three dimensional…[Ekaterina Semenchuk makes] many subtle observations... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd October 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2015, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Winner (Opera) and Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, October 2015, Record of the Week
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Opéra
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version, sung in Italian
Jonas Kaufmann (Don Carlo), Anja Harteros (Elisabetta), Matti Salminen (Filippo II), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigo), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Il Grande Inquisitore), Robert Lloyd (Un frate)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Antonio Pappano, Peter Stein
With Antonio Pappano in the pit, Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros brought to their interpretations of the leading roles rapturous arcs of phrasing and refulgence of tone that we have not heard... — More…
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Operatic Pappano
Anja Harteros (soprano), Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano), Erwin Schrott (bass), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Marco Spotti (bass), Ermonela Jaho (soprano), Gabriele Gemignani (cello), Nina Stemme (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor), Leontina Vaduva (soprano), Samuel Ramey (bass),...
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Valery Gergiev conducts Stravinsky
Dsd recording, Mariinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg December 2009 (Les Noces) Feb 2010 (Oedipus Rex)
Mlada Khudoley (soprano), Olga Savova (mezzo), Alexander Timchenko (tenor), Andrei Serov (bass), Svetlana Smolina, Yulia Zaichkina, Alexander Mogilevsky, Maxim Mogilevsky (pianos), Sergei Semishkur (Oedipus), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Jocasta), Evgeny Nikitin (Creon & Messenger), Mikhail Petrenko...
Ekaterina Semenchuk...[is] the contralto with the biggest range and lustre since Bernstein's Troyanos, and Sergey Semishkur's Oedipus blends clarion authority with youthful pathos...all the... — More…
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Brahms: Nänie
Mauro Peter (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass baritone), Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano), Rachel Harnisch (soprano)
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, James Gaffigan
Gaffigan is meticulous in his observance of the composer’s dynamic markings…The drama in the finale is vividly captured by Gaffigan. His tempo for the Symphony’s slow movement, too, is ideal,... — More…
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Anna Netrebko: Live at the Metropolitan Opera
Anna Netrebko (soprano), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Andrei), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya), Mariusz Kwiecien (Malatesta), Simone Alaimo (Don Pasquale), Juan Diego Florez (Ernesto), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Maddalena), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile), Roberto Alagna (Romeo), Ildar Abdrazakov (Raimondo), Michael...
There is an alert sense of drama, which is where Netrebko really scores as a singing actress...While her bel canto is judged 'could do better', it's worth considering that, at 40, Netrebko is... — More…
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Ekaterina Semenchuk (Carmen), Irina Lungu (Micaëla), Carlo Ventre (Don José), Carlos Álvarez (Escamillo), Francesca Micarelli (Frasquita), Cristina Melis (Mercédès), Federico Longhi (Le Dancaïre), Paolo Antognetti (Le Remendado), Seung Pil Choi (Zuniga)
Verona Arena, Henrik Nánási
This is picture-postcard opera … It’s traditional, it’s colourful. — More…
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Ekaterina Semenchuk (Carmen), Irina Lungu (Micaëla), Carlo Ventre (Don José), Carlos Álvarez (Escamillo), Francesca Micarelli (Frasquita), Cristina Melis (Mercédès), Federico Longhi (Le Dancaïre), Paolo Antognetti (Le Remendado), Seung Pil Choi (Zuniga)
Verona Arena, Henrik Nánási
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Special offer. Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko
Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov (Sadko), Aida Garifullina (Volkhova), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Lubava Buslaevna), Yuri Minenko (Nazhata), Stanislav Trofimov (Ocean-Sea, The Sea Tsar), Bolshoi Theatre, Timur Zangiev, Dmitri Tcherniakov (director)
Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov is a sturdy Sadko, scarcely ever off the stage...Rightly, the solo for the Varangian Merchant (Dmitry Ulianov) who will accompany Sadko on his voyages stops the show. But... — More…
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Special offer. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko
Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov (Sadko), Aida Garifullina (Volkhova), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Lubava Buslaevna), Yuri Minenko (Nazhata), Stanislav Trofimov (Ocean-Sea, The Sea Tsar), Bolshoi Theatre, Timur Zangiev, Dmitri Tcherniakov (director)
Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov is a sturdy Sadko, scarcely ever off the stage…Rightly, the solo for the Varangian Merchant (Dmitry Ulianov) who will accompany Sadko on his voyages stops the show. But... — More…
