Accentus Music
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Mendelssohn & Beethoven: Violin Concertos
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
Znaider’s sweet, richly-coloured tone and painstaking commitment to these two much-played works shines through every bar…with gorgeous, burnished accompaniment from the Gewandhaus players — More…
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Weinberg: Trumpet Concerto & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Anna Prohaska (soprano), Sara Mingardo (alto), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor) & René Pape (bass)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Choir & Swedish Radio Choir, Claudio Abbado
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Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Joyce DiDonato (Romeo), Olga Kulchynska (Giulietta), Benjamin Bernheim (Tebaldo), Roberto Lorenzi (Lorenzo), Alexei Botnarciuc (Capellio), Gieorgij Puchalski (The companion)
Philharmonia Zürich & Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Christof Loy (stage director)
Zurich’s Opera’s cast and conductor jump on board with admirable commitment. Fabio Luisi boldly sculpts the cantabile phrases without getting bogged down, and the orchestral playing is evocative,... — More…
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Baiba Skride (violin)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
This Fifth might even be caricatured as vaguely retro...The Leipzig team works hard to invigorate old-school expressive intentions with precise, sometimes glorious playing...The concerto may... — More…
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The Philharmonics
Waltzes By Johann Strauss. Arranged by Schoenberg, Berg & Webern
The Philharmonics
the DVD itself is a colourful evocation of old Vienna that admirably demonstrates the power of DVD to add positively to what one merely hears on CD...The five Strauss waltzes are proficiently... — More…
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Puccini: La Bohème
Gal James (Mimì), Aquiles Machado (Rodolfo), Carmen Romeu (Musetta), Massimo Cavalletti (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (Colline), Mattia Olivieri (Schaunard) & Matteo Peirone (Benoît)
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana & Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Riccardo Chailly
Chailly works musical miracles in the pit, but up stage, apart from Israeli soprano Gal James's tenderly phrased Mimi, the singing is coarse — More…
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Pärt: Adam's Passion
Michalis Theophanous, Lucinda Childs
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste
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The piece that fits well with the New World is the concert overture, Othello…Nelsons conveys the work’s turbulent passions, with marvellous control over dynamics and articulation…the sense of... — More…
