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Nikolai Lugansky In Recital (recorded live at the Verbier Festival on 28th July 2008) Nikolai Lugansky (piano) [ Euroarts / Ideale Audience International DVD / DVD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "The articulation…is breathtaking: such clarity for the turns of Prokofiev's 'Masks', such speed so well caught by the camerawork on fingers and blue-tinged keys in Liszt's 'Feux follets', such strength in the cascades of No. 10 and the glitter of... |
NILS PETTER MOLVAER
Ibsen's Ghosts (recorded in 2017) Norwegian National Ballet / The Norwegian National Ballet School [ BelAir Classiques DVD / DVD - released 10/Jun/2019 ] Ibsen's Ghosts is an evocative production in a modern dance style. Nils Petter Molvær has composed new music, which he performs on-stage together with Jan Bang. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel Giulio Cesare in Egitto (complete opera recorded in 1994) Opera Australia & Ballet / Yvonne Kenny, Graham Pushee, Rosemary Gunn, Elizabeth Campbell / Richard Hickox (cond) [ EuroArts Opera Australia DVD / 2 DVD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] A daringly inventive rendition of Handel's operatic masterpiece 'Giulio Cesare', performed live at the Sydney Opera House in 1994 by the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox, and starring Yvonne Kenny and Graham Pushee. |
REYNALDO HAHN
Hahn: Ciboulette (complete operas recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Opera de Toulon / Julie Fuchs, Jean-François Lapointe, Julien Behr / Laurence Equilbey (cond) [ Fra Musica Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2014 ] Intended to set the spice of Parisian operetta against American musical comedy, 'Ciboulette' was Reynaldo Hahn's first light score. It features the tribulations of the pretty market gardener Ciboulette, determined to earn herself a bright future with |
ALMA DEUTSCHER
Deutscher: Cinderella (complete recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Opera San Jose / Vanessa Becerra, Jonas Hacker, Nathan Stark, Karin Mushegain / Jane Glover (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 18/Dec/2018 ] "As a dramatic construct, the opera's a marvel for one so young...Deutscher starts with two gifts on her side: natural talent (I'll avoid the word genius) and sincerity. Cinderella may be pastiche, but at the same time nothing is fake." BBC Music |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq D'or (complete opera recorded 2002) Orchestre de Paris & Chorus of The Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / Albert Schagidullin, Ilya Levinsky, Andrei Breus / Kent Nagano (cond) [ Arthaus Musik BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2012 ] This Châtelet revival of Le Coq d'Or brings to the stage once again the great Kabuki actor Ennosuke III's striking staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera first mounted in co-production with the San Francisco Opera in 1984. |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (sung in German) Oskar Czerwenka (Don Pasquale), Edita Gruberova (Norina), Luigi Alva (Ernesto), Hans Helm (Malatesta) Wiener Staatsoper, Héctor Urbón [ Naxos / DVD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Donizetti's Don Pasquale represents the high point of the Italian buffa tradition, a sparkling comedy using characters from commedia dellarte in ways that are entertaining, witty and playful. It was the work selected by the Vienna State Opera for its... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Siegfried (complete opera recorded in Valencia, 2008) BLU-RAY Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia / Lance Ryan / Jennifer Wilson / Juha Uusitalo / Gerhard Siegel / Zubin Mehta [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Mar/2010 ] In this production "the visual codes of the digital era become elemental and dazzlingly employed means of narration" (Opernwelt). |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in Valencia, 2009) BLU-RAY Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia / Peter Seiffert / Juha Uusitalo / Matti Salminen / Jennifer Wilson / Zubin Mehta (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "…this is the most exciting staging I've seen - slightly recalling Cirque du Soleil, perhaps, except that here the spectacle is wholly and intelligently at Wagner's service." BBC Music Magazine, March 2010 ***** |
JOHANN ADOLF HASSE
Artaserse (complete opera recorded in 2012) Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca, Italy / Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Sonia Prina, Franco Fagioli / Corrado Rovaris [ Dynamic DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Apr/2016 ] Set: Alessandro Camera Costume Designer: Andrea Viotti Lighting Designer: Antonio Macchitella A classic work of its genre and historical period, Artaserse was premièred in Venice in 1730 by the most famous singers of the day: Farinelli in... |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Mireille (complete opera recorded in 2010) Paris National Opera / Inva Mula / Charles Castronovo / Franck Ferrari / Marc Minkowski (conductor) [ FRA Musica DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] Gramophone Magazine DVD of the Month - March 2011 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Paris Opera / Dimitris Tiliakos, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Violeta Urmana / Teodor Currentzis (conductor) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2013 ] "In film close-up, for instance, the wonderfully detailed acting of baritone Dimitris Tiliakos, a darkly handsome hero-villain, stands out" (BBC Music) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Berlin Concert - Live from the 'Waldbuhne' (complete concert) BLU-RAY Placido Domingo / Anna Netrebko / Rolando Villazon / Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Marco Armiliato [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "The vocalism consistently stood out as superior...Domingo at 65 remains a phenomenon...His junior colleagues never lapsed vocally below their wonted high levels" (MusicalAmerica.com) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Otello (complete opera recorded in 2001) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Plácido Domingo, Barbara Frittoli, Leo Nucci /Riccardo Muti (conductor) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2015 ] The cylindrical uniform stage set by Ezio Frigerio emphasised the hopeless consequence of the tragedy, as did the Orchestra della Scala, which, under the baton of Riccardo Muti, never sacrificed the dark, disturbing elements of the score. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra La Scala Opera / Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Anja Harteros (Amelia Grimaldi (Maria), etc / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "[Barenboim] delivers the kind of eloquently moulded, dramatically succinct phrases heard in his Wagner performances of late...[His] status as a Verdian outsider - and the fresh insights that come with that - is a genuine drawing card." |
Kimmo Pohjonen / Samuli Kosminen / Kronos Quartet
Uniko [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 16/Jan/2012 ] Recorded live in Helsinki, 2004. |
DVORAK
Biblical Songs (10), Op. 99 / Requiem, Op. 89 / Stabat Mater, Op. 58 / Te Deum, Op.103, B.176 Prague Symphony Orchestra and Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Choir / Petr Altrichter / Jirí Belohlávek / Libor Pešek [ ArtHaus Musik DVD / 3 DVD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The works of the quintessentially Czech composer Antonín Dvořák are, above all, enjoyable and perennial favourites of the Romantic repertoire. The concerts are performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the Prague Philharmonic Choir,... |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (plus Wolf - Lieder) [concert recorded in Sept 2012] BLU-RAY Renee Fleming (soprano) / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jun/2016 ] "Thielemann's interpretation of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony is majestic and clean, as expected, though it falls just short of the cumulative power that the audience's warm reception suggests." (BBC Music) |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Eine Alpensinfonie [Alpine Symphony] / Lieder (recorded live in 2011) Renee Fleming (soprano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Thielemann [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] "In all, this is clearly a treat for Straussians and Fleming fans; she has been both better and worse, but overall, she's lovely here." (International Record Review) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 9 (Recorded live from the Opéra Bastille and the Palais Garnier, Paris 2014-15) BLU-RAY Ricarda Merbeth, Daniela Sindram, Robert Dean Smitm, Günther Groissböck / Paris National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Philippe Jordan [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / 3 Blu-ray Box Set - released 20/Sep/2016 ] "A seasoned Beethovenian will likely conclude that a lot of care and thought went into the interpretations as well." Classical-Net |
