Since you are interested in Persee (complete opera recorded in Toronto, April 2004), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1988) Glyndebourne Festival Opera / Marie McLaughlin, Walter MacNeil, Brent Ellis / Bernard Haitink (cond) [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 4/Apr/2003 ] "The DVD clarifies the orchestral sound and the voices, to the benefit of Bernard Haitink"s poetic, plangent reading...visual clarity reveals a newly immediate richness and authenticity of setting and costume" -Gramophone, February 2002 |
BEETHOVEN / MEDTNER & OTHERS
Boris Berezovsky - Portrait - Concert - Interview (recorded in 2006) Boris Berezovsky (piano) [ Euroarts DVD / DVD - released 14/Oct/2007 ] G :- "Berezovsky takes the palm as a curious and magnetic personality. He has fun with the more outlandish of Beethoven's Dianelli Variations before probing the heart of the mystery." BBC Music Magazine Feb 2008 |
WAXMAN / MAHLER / BACH / SCHOENBERG / BRUCH / etc
Christopher Nupen's We Want the Light Cologne Opera Chorus & Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir / The Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne / Vladimir Ashkenazy / Daniel Barenboim / Evgeny Kissin [ BBC / Opus Arte / Kultur / 2 DVD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] G :- "There is a lot in these five and a half hours of viewing and listening to take on board, but it is an undertaking well worth the effort." - Music Web DVD of the Month Jan 2005 |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (Complete opera recorded in 1994) Deneder Landse Opera / Cynthia Haymon / Brigitte Balleys / Michael Chance / Christophe Rousset (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 25/Jan/2006 ] G :- Monteverdi's timeless masterpiece, which creates a modern, deep involvement in performers and audiences alike, is brilliantly captured in this High Definition live recording of Pierre Audi's moving and beautifully styled production from Het... |
JANACEK
The Cunning Little Vixen (complete opera animated version) German Symphony Orchestra / Kent Nagano / Geoff Dunbar [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 4/Jul/2003 ] G : - A lavish animation of Janácek's well-loved classic featuring Sharp Ears, the loveable, flirtatious fox. The innovative animator Geoff Dunbar brings fresh life to this charming opera with its new sound track made in 2001 with the Deutsches... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Seven String Quartets The Lindsays (Peter Cropper / Ronald Birks / Robin Ireland / Bernard Gregor-Smith) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 2/Aug/2005 ] G :- In 2004, while in residence at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, the Lindsay String Quartet recorded seven of the quartets written by Haydn. "Their playing has a human scale and involvement that make it ideal for Haydn." Guardian |
JANACEK
The Cunning Little Vixen (Complete opera sung in Czech recorded in 2008) Opéra Bastille / Elena Tsallagova, Jukka Rasilainen, Michèle Lagrange / Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) [ EuroArts / Medici Arts DVD / DVD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "Elena Tsallagova made an irresistible vixen with her lovingly observed paw-work and pretty soprano…Some of the best singing of the evening came from Jukka Rasilainen as the all-important gamekeeper." Opera News |
JOHN TAVENER
Fall and Resurrection Patricia Rozario / Michael Chance / Martyn Hill / Stephen Richardson / Richard Hickox [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/Jan/2003 ] G :- Fall and Resurrection is a deeply religious work. It tries to encompass, in brief glimpses the events which have taken place since the beginning of time, but with reference to Christian doctrine. |
ALBENIZ
Merlin (complete opera recorded in 2003) Teatro Real Madrid / David Wilson-Johnson / Stuart Skelton / Eva Marton / Carol Vaness / Jose De Eusebio (cond) [ Kultur / BBC / Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] G :- "From its opening stage scene, as dawn breaks outside St Paul's Cathedral in London on a Christmas Morning to the final curtain, with the sun setting behind Madrid's encircling mountains, turning the Plaza de Oriente and the Teatro Real pink,... |