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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (complete opera recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Robert Gambill, Nina Stemme, Katarina Karnéus, Bo Skovhus / Jirí Belohlavek (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "A performance realised to Glyndebourne's highest standards - the chorus and stage brass are Bayreuth-level, the casting immaculate (they can all really sing these parts) and Belohlávek's conducting balanced with a Goodall-like attention to the... |
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W. A. MOZART
The Ultimate Mozart Opera Album [2 CD set] Herbert Lippert, Bo Skovhus, John Dickie, Helen Kwon, and other Naxos recording artists [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] This marvellous selection reveals Mozart's astonishing gift for laying bare the inner lives of the many beloved characters from his most famous operas, whether embroiled in farce or defying fate. |
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BRAHMS
Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (German Requiem) Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano) Bo Skovhus (baritone) / Danish National Choir/DR / Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR / Gerd Albrecht [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 2/Jun/2003 ] 'What sets this performance apart from most others are the comparative lightness of its orchestral and choral sonority, transparency of its texture and utter avoidance of stodgy sentimentality… In short this is a warmly recommended release' -... |
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BO HOLTEN
Wisdom and Folly and other Choral Works Jesper Juul Sorensen (trombone) / Danish National Girls Choir/DR / Danish National Choir/DR / Bo Holten, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2005 ] "Music full of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic interest" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
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Junge Deutsche Philharmonie/Bo
Stravinsky/Debussy/Bartock: Or [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 13/Sep/2004 ] |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 (recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2009) BLU-RAY Miah Persson, Isabel Leonard, Topi Lehtipuu, Bo Skovhus, Patricia Petibon / Wiener Philharmoniker, Adam Fischer [ EuroArts / Unitel Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2014 ] Director Claus Guth's production of Mozart's Da Ponte trilogy for the Salzburg Festival reaches its sensational conclusion with his elegant, stylish production of Così fan tutte from the "Haus für Mozart". Guth bolsters the unity of the cycle by... |
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Mozarteumorchester Salzburg/Bo
Bruckner: Symphony No 4 In E-F [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 27/Nov/2012 ] |
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Mozarteumorchester Salzburg/Bo
Bruckner: Symphony No 6 [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 16/Aug/2004 ] |
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Mozarteumorchester Salzburg/Bo
Haydn: Symponies No 60, 88 & 9 [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2010 ] |
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Mozartiumorchester Salzburg/Bo
Bruckner: Symphony No.8 [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 27/Nov/2012 ] |
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ORLANDO de LASSO
Lasso: St. Matthew Passion Musica Ficta, Bo Holten [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2018 ] "Lassus's St Matthew Passion is exquisitely delivered by Bo Holten's talented Danish group, and emerges as an austere ceremony, dominated by monophony" MusicWeb |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Treasury of Danish Song Musica Ficta, Bo Holten [ Naxos / CD Box Set - released 5/Dec/2025 ] This encyclopaedic survey (18 CDs) represents Bo Holten and Musica Ficta's 25-year odyssey to collate and record the magnificent wealth of Danish part-songs. The project began in 1996 to much acclaim - Gramophone wrote: 'Musica Ficta cannot put a... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Danish Christmas Malene Mordtorp (soprano), Sine Bungaard (soprano) Musica Ficta, Bo Holten [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/1999 ] "Here a very pretty anthology of Danish noëls by composers and arrangers who are more or less familiar but always talented. ... To be heard all year round." (Translated from the original French) - Diapason, February 2000 |
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PUCCINI / MOZART / LEONCAVALLO / VERDI / ROSSINI
Famous Baritone Arias Roberto Servile (baritone), Georg Tichy (baritone), Natale de Carolis (baritone), Bo Skovhus (baritone), Andrea Martin (baritone), Roberto Frontali (b [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] Baritone airs from Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Carmen, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Tosca, Falstaff, etc |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Winter's Tale (recorded live in 2021) Royal Shakespeare Company / Andrew French, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Joseph Kloska, Georgia Landers [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] King Leontes rips his family apart but grief opens his heart. Will he find the child he abandoned before it is too late? This production of Shakespeares play is staged for the screen by the RSC. |
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W.A. MOZART
Don Giovanni (Highlights) Torsten Kerl (Tenor), Adrianne Pieczonka (Soprano), Bo Skovhus (Baritone), Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia / Michael Halasz (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/May/2006 ] Don Giovanni won immediate success in Prague and a performance was commanded in Vienna for the following May. |
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Barry Van Zyl & The Bo Kaap Collective
Goema Music from Cape Town, South Africa [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Goema [pronounce: "gooma"] music from the Bo Kaap, Cape Town, South Africa, as played today, still in its traditional format with voices, percussion, bass, banjo and guitar. |
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MOZART / VERDI / BIZET / PUCCINI / MASCAGNI / LEONCAVALLO
Great Opera Regina Schorg (soprano), Ildiko Raimondi (soprano), Torsten Kerl (tenor), Janusz Monarcha (bass), Bo Skovhus (baritone), Ramón Vargas (tenor), etc [ Naxos / 10 CD Box Set - released 26/Mar/2012 ] The Great Classics series from Naxos is the perfect introduction to myriad genres of classical music. Comprising both complete and compiled selections from the greatest works in the repertoire, the boxes are bursting with wonderful pieces of music,... |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Vienna Opera / Ausrine Stundyte, Bo Skovhus, Natascha Petrinsky, Elena Zaremba / Constantin Trinks (cond) [ C Major / Unitel Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Mar/2022 ] "AušrinÄ— StundytÄ— has in recent years made the role of Renate her own; and with the openness and generosity of her soprano, its control of colour, its capacity for tender lyricism with a tragic edge, she is perfect as the suffering heart of the work" |
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FRANZ LEHAR
The Count of Luxemburg (Der Graf von Luxemburg) the complete operetta recorded in 2005 Vienna Theatre / Bo Skovhus / Juliane Banse / Rainer Trost / Alfred Eschwe (cond) [ CPO DVD / DVD - released 14/Aug/2006 ] G :- "splendid musically" (MusicWeb Sept 2006) |