Ingo Metzmacher
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Schubert: Fierrabras D 796
Michael Schade (Fierrabras), Julia Kleiter (Emma), Benjamin Bernheim (Eginhard), Dorothea Röschmann (Florinda), Markus Werba (Roland), Georg Zeppenfeld (Charlemagne), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Maragond), Manuel Walser (Brutamonte)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Ingo Metzmacher
...the Vienna Philharmonic supplying focused playing under Ingo Metzmacher, and several worthwhile principal performances, especially from Georg Zeppenfeld’s firm Karl, Michael Schade’s engaged... — More…
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Inga Nielsen - Live and Studio Recordings 1952-2007
Opera, oratorio, lieder, concert arias, operetta, musical, spiritual & bonus tracks
Inga Nielsen (soprano)
Dedicated to recordings by the Danish soprano who died earlier this year aged 61, this 2-CD collection demonstrates her range and versatility, as well as the technical excellence and appealing... — More…
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Berg: Wozzeck
Bo Skovhus (Wozzeck), Angela Denoke (Marie), Jan Blinkhof (Tambourmajor), Chris Merritt (Hauptmann), Jürgen Sacher (Andres), Renate Spingler (Margret), Frode Olsen (Doktor)
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Ingo Metzmacher
Wozzeck benefits from careful attention to Berg's actual notes - often vaguely delivered in earlier recordings - instigated by Ingo Metzmacher...Bo Skovhus's deadpan soldier disintegrates with... — More…
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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Angela Denoke (Katerina), Misha Didyk (Sergey), Kurt Rydl (Boris), Marian Talaba (Zinovy), Michael Roider (Shabby peasant), Nadia Krasteva (Sonyetka), Donna Ellen (Aksinya), Janusz Monarcha (Priest), Dan Paul Dumitrescu (Old convict), Eijiro Kai (Sergeant) & Wolfram Igor Derntl (Teacher)
Chorus...
Metzmacher conducts with his trademark mix of intelligence and raw emotion and orchestrally it's superb...Angela Denoke's Katerina is sharply characterised as a woman for whom murder is the... — More…
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Time Traveller: Weimar Germany
Robyn Archer (voices, lead vocals), Wayne Marshall (organ), Lars Vogt (piano), Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Ingo Metzmacher/Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Robyn Archer/The London Sinfonietta, John Kurlander (recorder), Robyn Archer/The London Sinfonietta/Dominic Muldowney, London Sinfonietta...
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Rihm: Die Eroberung von Mexico
Richard Salter & Renate Behle
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Ingo Metzmacher
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Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise
Camilla Tilling (Angel), Rod Gilfry (Saint François), Hubert Delamboye (Leper), Henk Neven (Frère Léon), Tom Randle (Frère Massée), Donald Kaasch (Frère Élie), Armand Arapian (Frère Bernard), Jan Willem Baljet (Frère Sylvestre), André Morsch (Frère Rufin)
The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra &...
This Netherlands Opera production from Pierre Audi… is a triumph of wonderfully inventive, yet sympathetic direction. The imagery follows Messiaen's knack for sophisticated simplicity. His... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, DVD of the Month
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Schubert: Fierrabras D 796
Michael Schade (Fierrabras), Julia Kleiter (Emma), Benjamin Bernheim (Eginhard), Dorothea Röschmann (Florinda), Markus Werba (Roland), Georg Zeppenfeld (Charlemagne), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Maragond), Manuel Walser (Brutamonte)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Ingo Metzmacher
This is an almost perfect performance, both vocally and in its staging and acting…Charlemagne is taken by the young and magnificent bass-baritone Georg Zeppenfeld, and Fierrabras himself, son... — More…
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Zimmermann, B A: Die Soldaten
Alfred Muff (Wesener), Laura Aikin (Marie), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Charlotte), Tomasz Konieczny (Stolzius), Renée Morloc (Stolzius’s mother), Gabriela Benacková (Countess de la Roche), Matthias Klink (The Young Count), Daniel Brenna (Desportes), Boaz Daniel (Eisenhardt) & Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke...
Hermanis subverts a savage serialist satire on German militarism into a more generalised attack on men's sexual objectification of women...the unstinting efforts of the Vienna Philharmonic under... — More…
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Mozart – Da Ponte Box Set
Sally Matthews (Fiordiligi), Maite Beaumont (Dorabella), Luca Pisaroni (Guglielmo), Norman Shankle (Ferrando), Danielle de Niese (Despina), Garry Magee (Don Alfonso), Danielle de Niese (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Garry Magee (Il Conte), Cellia Costea (La Contessa), Maite Beaumont (Cherubino),...
