DVD Video, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
James Bowman (Oberon), Ileana Cotrubas (Tytania), Felicity Lott (Helena), Cynthia Buchan (Hermia), Ryland Davies (Lysander), Dale Duesing (Demetrius), Curt Applegren (Bottom)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Bernard Haitink, Peter Hall
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Bernard Haitink Farewell
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 & Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Emanuel Ax (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink
Rather than invoking a sacred-Wagnerian source for this music in the manner of Barenboim or Thielemann, his broader tempos, allied to some striking rhetorical cadences and the Vienna Philharmonic’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo
Luis Lima (Don Carlo), Ileana Cotrubas (Elisabetta), Robert Lloyd (Filippo II), Giorgio Zancanaro (Rodrigo), Bruna Baglioni (Eboli), Joseph Rouleau (Il Grande Inquisitore), Patricia Parker (Tebaldo), Matthew Best (Un Frate)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bernard Haitink
The pleasure is all in the visuals and the overall authentically Verdian mood they create...Haitink’s conducting is a slow-burn effort, convincing as the opera builds to its climax and matching... — More…
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Offer,
An Evening with the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta, Alina Cojocaru, Leanne Benjamin, Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg, Luke Heydon & Carlos Acosta, Miyako Yoshida, Steven McRae, Marianela Nunez, Thiago Soares, Christopher Saunders, William Tuckett, Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Miah...
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A classic, modern orchestra performance — More…
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Verdi: Falstaff
Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Roberto Frontali (Ford), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mistress Quickly), Desiree Rancatore (Nanetta), Kenneth Tarver (Fenton)
Orchestra & Chorus of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bernard Haitink, stage direction by Graham Vick
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Melanie Diener (Leonore), Roberto Saccà (Florestan), Lucio Gallo (Don Pizarro), Alfred Muff (Rocco), Sandra Trattnigg (Marzelline), Christoph Strehl (Jaquino), Krešimir Stražanac (Don Fernando)
Zurich Opera Orchestra & Zurich Opera Chorus, Bernard Haitink (conductor) & Katharina Thalbach...
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Verdi Box Set
Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Roberto Frontali (Ford), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mistress Quickly), Desiree Rancatore (Nanetta), Kenneth Tarver (Fenton)
Peter Hoare, Gwynne Howell, Barbara Frittoli & Desirée Rancatore, José Cura (Manrico), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Il...
[On Rigoletto] With Christine Schäfer as a matchless Gilda and Edward Downes, the finest Verdian of the age, conducting, it’s a production that rages at the cruelty of the world. — 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…