Arthaus Musik
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Jacquelyn Wagner (Fiordiligi), Michèle Losier (Dorabella), Frédéric Antoun (Ferrando), Philippe Sly (Guglielmo), Paulo Szot (Don Alfonso), Ginger Costa-Jackson (Despina)
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Philippe Jordan
Jacquelyn Wagner is a poised Fiordiligi, with plenty of power for ‘Come scoglio’, while Michèle Losier sings a stylish Dorabella...The men are even finer, particularly Philippe Sly’s Guglielmo...With... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Richard Strauss and his Heroines
A Film by Thomas von Steinaecker
featuring Brigitte Fassbaender, Renee Fleming, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Christa Ludwig, Christian Strauss, Rufus Wainwright
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Extraordinary DVD shows how much of the composer’s aesthetic was determined by his relationship with his wife, Pauline — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - DVD Documentary
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Handel: Tamerlano
Monica Bacelli (Tamerlano), Thomas Randle (Bajazet), Graham Pushee (Andronico), Anna Bonitatibus (Irene), Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz (Asteria), Antonio Abete (Leone)
The English Consort, Trevor Pinnock, stage direction by Jonathan Miller
This is an uncommonly interesting examination of how a great Handel opera may be performed without insisting that only Baroque specialists need apply. Some of the singers here aren't obvious... — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Jacquelyn Wagner (Fiordiligi), Michèle Losier (Dorabella), Frédéric Antoun (Ferrando), Philippe Sly (Guglielmo), Paulo Szot (Don Alfonso), Ginger Costa-Jackson (Despina)
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Philippe Jordan
Jacquelyn Wagner is a poised Fiordiligi, with plenty of power for ‘Come scoglio’, while Michèle Losier sings a stylish Dorabella...The men are even finer, particularly Philippe Sly’s Guglielmo...With... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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José Carreras & Claudio Abbado - Frankfurt Concert 1992
RecommendedA Gala Concert Recorded Live from the Alte Oper Frankfurt
Jose Carreras (tenor), Martin Haselböck (organ), Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Toelzer Boys’ Choir
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, February 2010, First Choice (DVD)
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
Its greatest asset is Daniel Barenboim's conducting, less vigorous perhaps than his Bayreuth cycle but generally more fluent and sweeping, with fewer abrupt tempo changes, and the La Scala orchestra... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Offer,
Poulenc: Le Voix Humaine & Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle Barbara Hannigan (Elle), Ekaterina Gubanova (Judit), John Relyea (Bluebeard)
Paris Opera Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Krzysztof Warlikowski
A solid, uncontroversial staging of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle which works well – with two outstanding performers – bonded to a perverse one of Poulenc’s monodrama which does not. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Video Performance
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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (Katerina Izmailova), Vladimir Vaneev (Boris Izmailov), Vsevolod Grivnov (Zinoviy Izmailov), Sergej Kunaev (Sergei), Nanà Miriani (Aksinya), Natascha Petrinsky (Sonetka)
Orchestra and Chorus of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, James Conlon (conductor) & Lev Dodin (director)
[Conlon] has conducted Shostakovich's masterpiece on both continents… There is plenty of passion in the pit. …New Orleans-raised Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet proves a powerful if one-dimensional... — More…
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Opera, March 2010, Recording of the Month
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Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira Michael Spyres (Aureliano), Jessica Pratt (Zenobia), Lena Belkina (Arsace) & Raffaella Lupinacci (Publia)
Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Will Crutchfield (conductor) & Mario Martone (stage director)
[This production] is excellent and the singing on a very high level. The title role has the least interesting music, but Michael Spyres…makes what he can of it…[the lovers] are sung by Lena... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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