More By Artist: Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
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![Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY & DVD cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10611/10611101.jpg)
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY & DVD Bayreuth Festival / John Lundgren, Georg Zeppenfeld, Asmik Grigorian, Attilio Glaser / Oksana Lyniv (conductor) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 20/Apr/2024 ] "Lyniv's conducting is superb in terms of pacing and tonal weight and balance...Grigorian and Zeppenfeld sing as fluently and fearlessly as they act." Gramophone Magazine September 2022 Blu-ray of the Month |
WALTER PISTON
Piston: Chamber Music including the Quintet for Flute & Sting Quartet 1999 Australian Festival of Chamber Music [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2002 ] "The Naxos American Classics series is throwing up both intriguing repertoire and some appealing performances" The Strad |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Violin Concertos 1 & 2 Arabella Steinbacher (violin) / Festival Strings Lucerne, Daniel Dodds [ Pentatone / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] After having recorded Mozart's last three violin concertos in 2014, Arabella Steinbacher, the Festival Strings Lucerne and its leader Daniel Dodds now complete the cycle by presenting Mozart's less well-known, but equally enchanting Violin Concertos... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 12 & 13 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Andris Nelsons, with Matthias Goerne (bass-baritone) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] "The cycle has been a monumental achievement, and this final instalment is as shattering and insightful as earlier ones. It is hard to single out highlights," Sunday Times |
GEORGE LLOYD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lloyd: A Symphonic Mass Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Brighton Festival Chorus, George Lloyd [ Albany / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] "And finally, another important choral work from this century, perhaps George Lloyd's best work yet: varied in color, elegiac and triumphant, introspective, and celebratory all at the same time" Fanfare |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: L'Italiana In Algeri (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Cecilia Bartoli, Ildar Abdrazakov, Edgardo Rocha, Alessandro Corbelli, José Coca Loza / Jean-Christophe Spinosi (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray - released 9/Aug/2019 ] "The role of Isabella is sung to perfection by Cecilia Bartoli - a clever, independent woman with an adventurous streak" (New York Times). Bartoli's superb performance in Gioachino Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) at... |
TONU KORVITS / ULO KRIGUL / HELENA TULVE / TAUNO AINTS / LEPO SUMERA
Estonian Premieres Estonian Festival Orchestra; Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] After two recordings released on Alpha Classics (including a monograph devoted to Erkki-Sven Tüür - ALPHA595 - that won a Diapason d'Or in 2020), the Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo Järvi present six works by five internationally renowned... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Rule Britannia: The Last Night of the Proms (featuring 'Crown Imperial'; 'Jerusalem' & 'Fantasia on British Sea Songs') Leeds Festival Chorus; English Northern Philharmonia; Paul Daniel, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] Christian Sinding was born in 1856 in Kongsberg, Norway, where his father was an engineer. His mother was artistically minded, encouraging her three sons' artistic interests and both Christian's brothers pursued artistic careers |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] 'It's hard to forget that the concert recorded here turned out to be Claudio Abbado's last. Yet this is not simply a poignant memorial to the late conductor but one of the finest Bruckner Nines on disc' (Gramophone Award WINNER 2015 - Orchestral) |
![Live From Verbier Festival [recorded 2009 & 2010] BLU-RAY cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10185/10185531.jpg)
SHOSTAKOVICH / BEETHOVEN / SCARLATTI / etc
Live From Verbier Festival [recorded 2009 & 2010] BLU-RAY Martha Argerich (piano) David Guerrier (trumpet) Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Gabor Takacs-Nagy [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "(Martha Argerich) sets about the down-to-earth matter of sublime music-making, pulling all her colleagues into her spell." (BBC Music) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Ravenna Festival / Claudio Desderi, Mario Cassi, Francisco Gatell & Laura Giordano / Riccardo Muti (conductor) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2010 ] Watching this realistic, young and vital production, directed by the young Andrea da Rosa and listening to a high potential and unspent young cast, you feel how powerful, charming and timeless this score by Gaetano Donizetti is. |
TRADITIONAL
Lost Songs of St. Kilda Trevor Morrison (piano) / Scottish Festival Orchestra, James MacMillan [ Decca / CD - released 28/Sep/2016 ] This is the incredible story of the Lost Songs of St Kilda. Nearly a century ago, the last 36 residents were evacuated from the most remote part of the British Isles, St Kilda, an isolated island off the beautiful and rugged western coast of... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
The Best Of Handel Johann Aratore (organ), Jozef Cejka (oboe), Miroslav Kejmar (trumpet) Cappella Istropolitana, Budapest Strings, Handel Festival Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 7/May/1997 ] Handel was successful in developing a new form, the English oratorio, which combined the musical felicities of the Italian operatic style with an increased role for the chorus, relative economy of production, and the satisfaction of an English text. |
![Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (with Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3) [recorded in 2009] cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10170/10170466.jpg)
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (with Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3) [recorded in 2009] Yuja Wang (piano) / Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Euroarts DVD / DVD - released 20/Jul/2010 ] "Every visual detail caught by the eye becomes woven into the aural tapestry of Mahler's First Symphony. The tension is high from the beginning as spring rustles into life. Abbado carefully paces each surge in energy, each mood transformation. Every... |
SAVERIO MERCADANTE
Mercadante: Francesca da Rimini (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Festival della Valle d'Itria, Martina Franca / Leonor Bonilla, Aya Wakizono, Merto Süngü, Antonio Di Matteo / Fabio Luisi (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray - released 1/Feb/2020 ] Written almost two centuries ago by Saverio Mercadante, coveted by many theatres of the day, Francesca da Rimini was, in fact, never staged. Every time it was scheduled for performance, something happened and it got canceled. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded live in 2008) BLU-RAY Bayreuth Festival / Michael Volle, Klaus Florian Vogt, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Anne Schwanewilms / Philippe Jordan (cond) [ Deutsche Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray - released 5/Dec/2019 ] "The performances of the cast are of a high standard dramatically and mostly musically. Volle now paces himself well and Lehmkuhl is a magical and unclichéd Magdalene." Gramophone |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (complete opera recorded live in 2009) BLU-RAY Bayreuth Festival / Robert Dean Smith, Robert Holl, Irene Theorin, Jukka Rasilainen / Peter Schneider (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2010 ] G - 'In Tristan the standard of conducting and singing is high. Peter Schneider draws seamless playing from the orchestra, contouring Wagner's long arcs of sound as only someone of his experience can do.' The Financial Times |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (complete opera directed by Wolfgang Wagner recorded in 1984) Bayreuther Festival / Bernd Weikl / Siegfried Jerusalem / Marianne Haggander / Marga Schiml / Graham Clark / Hermann Prey / Horst Stein (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon / Unitel / 2 DVD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] G :- Staged and directed by Richard Wagner's grandson Wolfgang at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1984, this production of Wagner's only comic opera features an all-star cast and the Bayreuther Festspiele chorus and orchestra under the direction of... |
BERTHOLD GOLDSCHMIDT
Goldschmidt: Beatrice Cenci (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Bregenz Festival / Christoph Pohl, Gal James, Dshamilja Kaiser, Christina Bock / Johannes Debus (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Jul/2019 ] "There is never a dull moment…Pohl takes the brave route with Cenci…With his baritone in lustrous form, this is a performance to savour" Opera - October 2019 - Disc of the Month |
![Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10552/10552603.jpg)
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Bregenz Festival / Daniel Johansson, Kerstin Avemo, Mandy Fredrich, Rachel Frenkel, Michael Volle / Johannes Debus (cond) [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "Johansson's big-voice Hoffmann lacks a genuine pianissimo but phrases elegantly…Fredrich and Frenkel are nicely stylish…playing and choral singing are both excellent" (Gramophone) |
