Johannes Weisser
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Beethoven: Leonore
RecommendedMarlis Petersen (Leonore), Maximilian Schmitt (Florestan), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Rocco), Johannes Weisser (Pizarro), Robin Johannsen (Marzelline), Johannes Chum (Jaqino), Tareq Nazmi (Don Fernando), Florian Feth, Julian Popken (Two Prisoners)
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
Of the principals only Johannes Weisser’s Don Pizarro disappoints, and even he is strong in the dialogue. Jacobs’s tempos are fast – sometimes a bit skittishly so – and the sublimity one looks... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Record Review, 7th December 2019, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th December 2019
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opera, March 2020, Disc of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Petersen)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedJohannes Weisser (Don Giovanni), Lorenzo Regazzo (Leporello), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Donna Elvira), Olga Pasichnyk (Donna Anna), Kenneth Tarver (Don Ottavio), Sunhae Im (Zerlina), Nikolay Borchev (Masetto), Alessandro Guerzoni (Il Commendatore)
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
If Jacobs is hardly the first modern conductor to present the opera in its 'original colours', his Don Giovanni is among the liveliest and most enjoyable on offer. It is certainly one of the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st October 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Disc of the Month
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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Giulio Cesare), Karina Gauvin (Cleopatra), Romina Basso (Cornelia), Emoke Barath (Sesto), Filippo Mineccia (Tolomeo), Johannes Weisser (Achilla), Milena Storti (Nireno), Gianluca Buratto (Curio)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
if all ears were once on the Egyptian seductress Cleopatra, now they are focused on the grieving Roman widow Cornelia...Curtis presents a Giulio Cesare that is as volatile and ambiguous as Mozart's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Cavalieri: Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo
Marie-Claude Chappuis (Anima), Johannes Weisser (Corpo), Gyula Orendt (Tempo, Consiglio), Mark Milhofer (Inteletto, Piacere), Marcos Fink (Mondo, Secondo Compagno di Piacere, Anima dannata)
Staatsopernchor, Concerto vocale, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
this is an extravagant and embellished view of the original score, at times almost Romantic with its opulent orchestral palette and lush choral singing...Jacobs and his superb musicians produce... — More…
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Arias for Marietta Marcolini
Rossini’s first muse
Ann Hallenberg (contralto)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi
Hallenberg is up to all the acrobatics Marcolini seems to have revelled in, her warm mezzo managing the writing's difficulties with assurance and articulating text and notes with flair...The... — More…
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Handel: Giove in Argo
Ann Hallenberg (Iside), Theodora Baka (Diana), Karina Gauvin (Calisto), Anicio Zorzi ('Arete' - Giove), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani ('Arete' - Giove), Johannes Weisser (Licaone), Vito Priante (Erasto - Osiri)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
this reconstruction is notable for the unusual balance between arias and choruses, of which there are nine horns, oboe and recorders. Though the voices blend oddly with Curtis's choir, the choral... — More…
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Purcell: King Arthur
sung in English with German dialogue
Anett Fritsch (soprano), Robin Johannsen (soprano), Benno Schachtner (counter-tenor), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Stephan Rügamer (tenor), Arttu Kataja (baritone), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Michael Rotschopf (Arthur), Meike Droste (Emmeline/Mother), Hans-Michael Rehberg (Merlin/ Grandfather), Akademie...
There are effective moments in addition to those predictably generated by Purcell’s irresistible sequences. But the spectacle has an ad hoc, overstuffed quality...Under Jacobs’s direction, Purcell’s... — More…
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Beethoven: Leonore
Marlis Petersen (Leonore), Maximilian Schmitt (Florestan), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Rocco), Johannes Weisser (Pizarro), Robin Johannsen (Marzelline), Johannes Chum (Jaquino), Tareq Nazmi (Fernando), Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie
René Jacobs
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Purcell: King Arthur
sung in English with German dialogue
Anett Fritsch (soprano), Robin Johannsen (soprano), Benno Schachtner (counter-tenor), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Stephan Rügamer (tenor), Arttu Kataja (baritone), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Michael Rotschopf (Arthur), Meike Droste (Emmeline/Mother), Hans-Michael Rehberg (Merlin/ Grandfather), Akademie...
There are effective moments in addition to those predictably generated by Purcell’s irresistible sequences. But the spectacle has an ad hoc, overstuffed quality...Under Jacobs’s direction, Purcell’s... — More…
