Ricarda Merbeth
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Johan Botha: Wiener Staatsoper Live
1997 - 2014: Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss
Johan Botha (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram), Cheryl Studer (Elsa), James Rutherford (Sachs), Angela Denoke (Kundry), Marjana Lipovšek (Amme), Ricarda Merbeth (Daphne), Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Valentina Nafornită (Najade), Rachel Frenkel (Dryade), Olga Bezsmertna (Echo), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta)
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The recorded sound is produced to a consistently pleasing quality, and one does sense the special atmosphere of the live performance. Live at Wiener Staatsoper, this first-rate collection is... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano)
Netherlands Radio Choir & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
it's always a pleasure to hear warm Concertgebouw horns in noble ensemble, and the woodwind do beautiful things with the second of the heavenly visions in the [first] movement...Bernarda Fink... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano), Elza van den Heever (soprano), Elisabeta Marin (soprano), Stella Grigorian (alto), Jane Henschel (alto), Johan Botha (tenor), Boaz Daniel (baritone) & Kwangchoul Youn (bass)
Wiener Singakademie, Vienna Boys Choir, Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor & ORF-Radio...
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Vienna State Opera Gala 2005
Ferruccio Furlanetto (Leporello), Edita Gruberova (Donna Anna), Thomas Hampson (Don Giovanni), Ildikó Raimondi (Zerlina), Michael Schade (Don Ottavio), Soile Isokoski (Donna Elvira) Ferruccio Furlanetto (Leporello), Boaz Daniel (Masetto), Soile Isokoski (Marschallin), Angelika Kirchschlager (Octavian)
Genia...
Last November the Vienna State Opera celebrated the 50th anniversary of the house's re-opening after the damage of the war had been repaired. The gala concert included extracts from all the... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tolzer Knabenchor, Riccardo Chailly
As you would expect from a handpicked band, the orchestral playing is consistently glorious. The contribution of the combined choirs is authoritative and there is a fine team of soloists, in... — More…
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Music is the language of the heart and soul
A portrait of Mariss Jansons
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Concertgebouw Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Choir, Mariss Jansons
Most valuable is the footage of his father, conductor Arvid Jansons, and of his own early days as a Herbert von Karajan protege...Of Jansons's humanity and penetrating gifts as a conductor we... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tolzer Knabenchor, Riccardo Chailly
His approach is characteristically thoughtful...As you would expect from a handpicked band, the orchestral playing is consistently glorious. The contribution of the combined choirs is authoritative... — More…
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano), Daniela Sindram (mezzo-soprano), Robert Dean Smith (tenor) & Gunther Groissbock (bass)
Choeurs de l’Opera National de Paris & Orchestre de l’Opera National de Paris, Philippe Jordan
A valuable addition to the vast catalogue of Beethoven symphony recordings. A pleasure to see and hear. — More…
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano), Daniela Sindram (mezzo-soprano), Robert Dean Smith (tenor) & Gunther Groissbock (bass)
Choeurs de l’Opera National de Paris & Orchestre de l’Opera National de Paris, Philippe Jordan
An impressive account of ‘The Nine’ from the forces of the Paris Opera, one that certainly has its place among a strong set of modern filmed cycles. — More…
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Mahler: Complete Symphonies (1-10), Totenfeier & Das Lied von der Erde
All full HD live recordings taken from the 2009-2011 Mahler celebration at Amsterdam Concertgebouw
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Miah Persson (soprano), Christine Brewer (soprano), Camilla Nylund (soprano), Maria Espada (soprano), Stephanie Blythe (mezzo), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Tommi Hakala (baritone),...
All these performances bear the stamp of the man on the podium...but the set's most positive and absorbing quality is its paradoxical focus on the orchestra, and in this composer above all,... — More…
