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TARIK O'REGAN
O'Regan: Mata Hari (complete ballet recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Dutch National Ballet / Anna Tsygankova & Matthew Rowe / Matthew rowe (cond) [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2017 ] The turbulent life of the Dutch spy and dancer Mata Hari is at the heart of this large-scale ballet production by Dutch National Ballet. As the exotic, mysterious Mata Hari, she became one of the most famous dancers of her day.. |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV / JOBY TALBOT
Two Ballet Favourites by Christophen Wheeldon: Prokofiev: Cinderella / Talbot: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Recorded 2011 & 2012) BLU-RAY Dutch National Ballet / Royal Opera House / Anna Tsygankova, Matthew Golding, Lauren Cuthbertson, Sergei Polunin / Ermanno Florio & Barry Wordsworth ( [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Oct/2017 ] "Lauren Cuthbertson, as Alice, is excellent, her every movement suggesting the actions and emotions of this curious, spirited pre-adolescent...Christopher Wheeldon's choreography is very imaginative and fitting for every character" MusicWeb on Alice |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder (Complete 'opera' recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Dutch National Opera / Burkhard Fritz, Emily Magee, Anna Larsson, Markus Marquard / Marc Albrecht (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Begun in the year 1900, amidst the art nouveau curlicues of Klimt and the Jugendstil, Schönberg's grand cantata is written in a lush, late-romantic style indebted to Wagner and Mahler and pre-dating his pioneering atonal works. This setting of the... |
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ARCANGELO CORELLI
The 12 'Assisi' Sonatas (Anhang 38-49) Enrico Gatti (violin), Gaetano Nasillo (cello) & Anna Fontana (harpsichord) / Ensemble Aurora [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] World Premiere Recordings The rich, beautiful violin tone, and unhurried yet thoughtful tempi of Enrico Gatti have been heard often in the music of Arcangelo Corelli. For Glossa he has now recorded the 'Assisi' Sonatas for violin, 12 Sonate da... |
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CANAVASSO / CHIABRANO / GIARDINI / PUGNANI / SOMIS / etc
Perle del Piemonte: Violin music in 18th-century Italy Enrico Gatti (violin), Gaetano Nasillo (cello) & Anna Fontana (harpsichord) / Ensemble Aurora [ Glossa / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] For many people, the poetry of the violinist Enrico Gatti, which we have been enjoying in concerts and on recordings (for labels such as Symphonia, Arcana and Glossa) for more than three decades is unparalleled when addressing the subtlest of Italian... |
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FOERSTER / JARZEBSKI / ZIELENSKI / MIELCZEWSKI / SZARZINSKI
Gems of the Polish Baroque Ensemble Giardino di Delizie, Ewa Anna Augustynowicz [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2020 ] This new recording presents Polish composers from the Baroque, in whose works influences from their Italian contemporaries can be found. |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' BLU-RAY Eteri Gvazava / Anna Larsson / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "It's different having best friends together. Everyone is there to enjoy making music, to take pleasure, to play with enthusiasm, with passion. They are prepared to do any crazy thing I ask them for the sake of the music. To fly, to walk through... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1-7 (Blu-ray) Eteri Gvazava (soprano) / Anna Larsson (contralto) / Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano) / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / 4 Blu-ray Disc - released 8/Aug/2011 ] "Has there ever been a suaver, more transparent Mahler performance or one in which everything stays so beautifully in tune? ... Abbado's music-making is a celebration of the purest joy." The Gramophone Magazine |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Concertos For Pianos Evgeni Koroliov / Anna Vinnitskaya / Ljupka Hadzi Georgieva / Kammerakademie Postdam [ Alpha / 2 CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Over the past five years, pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has made three Alpha recordings dedicated to Shostakovitch, Brahms et Rachmaninov. Evgeni Koroliov is a great master of the piano, a great Bach specialist, whose recordings of Bach are an acclaimed... |
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CARLO AMBROGIO LONATI
Lonati: Complete Sinfonias Ensemble Giardino di Delizie, Ewa Anna Augustynowicz [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 11/Jan/2019 ] Another long-forgotten name takes his place in the huge library of Baroque composers published by Brilliant Classics thanks to spirited advocacy from a lively young Roman early-music group. The Milanese composer, impresario and singer Carlo... |
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MASSENET
Don Quichotte (complete opera recorded in 2011) Ferruccio Furianetto, Anna Kiknadze, Andrei Serov / Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev [ Mariinsky SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2012 ] |
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WAGNER
Das Liebesverbot [The Ban on Love] (complete opera) Anna Gabler, Michael Nagy, Peter Bronder, Charles Reid, Simon Bode / Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastien Weigle [ Oehms Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2013 ] "[Weigle] has an excellent cast: singers such as Anna Gabler, Christiane Libor and Michael Nagy all ensure that the score's strongest, least hell-for-leather episodes are heard to full effect...Perhaps, after all, Wagner was right not to destroy it." |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Szymanowski: Songs with Orchestra Jadwiga Gadulanka, Anna Malewicz-Madej / Polish State Philharmonic, Karol Stryja [ Naxos / CD ] "In the Song of the Fairy-Tale Princess, on feels that Szymanowski must have known Stravinsky's Le Rossignal. On Naxos, both the Song of the Infatuated Muezzin and the Love Songs of Hafiz are sung by a tenor (Ryszard Minkiewicz) with impressive... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Privat Georg Nigl, Andreas Staier, Anna Lucia Richter, Petra Müllejans, Roel Dieltiens [ Alpha / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] This recording is an invitation to immerse ourselves in the musical inner circle of the Bach family. We are familiar with Johann Sebastian Bach as a composer of genius, but we know little about his family life, with the exception of the famous... |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [complete opera recorded in 2012] Glyndebourne Opera / Gerald Finley, Anna Gabler, Johannes Martin Kränzle / London Philharmonic Orchestra, VladimirJurowski [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 2/Feb/2013 ] "Gerald Finley's pivotal Sachs relish[es] this intensely verbal role with a Lieder-singer's skill and beauty...Jurowski completes the ensemble with a beautiful account, unfolding the story with pace and details...Together they make the immense... |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Recorded live at Glyndebourne, Lewes, July 2011) BLU-RAY Gerald Finley, Anna Gabler, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Marco Jentzsch, Topi Lehtipuu / London Philharmonic Orchestra, VladimirJurowski, David McVicar [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2013 ] "Jurowski completes the ensemble with a beautiful account, unfolding the story with pace and details...Together they make the immense performance the most uplifting performance I can recall" (Five Stars BBC Music - DVD/Blu-ray Choice - December 2012) |
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KURT ATTERBERG
Atterberg: Orchestral Works Volume 5 Anna Larsson (soprano) & Olle Persson (baritone) / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi (conductor) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Aug/2016 ] The final volume in our Atterberg series with Neeme Järvi and his Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra is finally out. Recorded on SACD like most of the previous ones, it features two late, again rarely performed symphonies: Nos 7 and 9. |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN / ARCANGELO CORELLI / J. S. BACH
Telemann, Corelli & Bach: Concertos & Suites Höör Barock, Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Emelie Roos (recorder), Dan Laurin (direction and recorder) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Dec/2016 ] The young period band Höör Barock, based in the south of Sweden, has chosen a colourful programme for its début disc. With recorder virtuoso Dan Laurin at the helm, the twelve musicians steer a course through Telemann's celebrated Wassermusik (also... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Oda (Alone) complete score of the silent film Irina Mataeva (sop) Anna Kiknadze (mezzo) Dmitry Voropaev (tenor) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra / Mark Fitz-Gerald [ Naxos Film Music Classics / CD - released 19/Jan/2008 ] Set in late 1920s Leningrad and then in the Altai Mountains in Russian Mongolia, Shostakovich's second film ODNA (ALONE) features a dazzling score for a huge orchestra including a banda (8 brass band instruments), theremin, (Shostakovich was one of... |
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SIBELIUS
Piano Quintets and Melodramas Jaakko Kuusisto, Laura Vikman (violins) Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic (viola) Joel Laakso (cello) Folke Grasbeck (piano) Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano ) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] Apart from Voces intimae, his final string quartet, the chamber music of Jean Sibelius has been rather over-shadowed by the orchestral masterpieces. |