Naxos - 50% off Hi-Res
Until 11th September 2024, we are offering 50% off Naxos Hi-Res downloads - a great opportunity to build your digital library in the highest possible sound quality.
Naxos - 50% off Hi-Res, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (orchestra)
-
Special offer. Wagner: Das Rheingold
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (Wotan), Kim Begley (Loge), Michelle DeYoung (Fricka), Deborah Humble (Erda), Peter Sidhom (Alberich), Anna Samuil (Freia), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Stephen Milling (Fafner), David Cangelosi (Mime), Charles Reid (Froh), Oleksandr Pushniak (Donner), Eri Nakamura (Woglinde), Aurhelia...
Sidhom's dark-leather tone and malevolent characterisation make an impressive Alberich, fellow Briton Kim Begley is a smooth, sardonic Loge, ideally lyrical in his narration...Van Zweden conducts... — More…
Awards:
-
Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
2 CDs
$25.00Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (Wotan), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde), Michelle DeYoung (Fricka), Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Heidi Melton (Sieglinde), Falk Struckmann (Hunding), Sarah Castle (Waltraute), Karen Foster (Gerhilde), Katherine Broderick (Helmwige), Anna Burford (Schwertleite), Elaine McKrill (Ortlinde), Aurhelia...
Drawing airy, luminescent textures from the Hong Kong players, [van Zweden] drives the drama excitingly [and] his singers respond superbly…Goerne brings Wotan’s fearful conflicts of love and... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 11th November 2016
-
BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Opera Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
4 CDs
$34.75Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedSimon O’Neill (Siegfried), Matthias Goerne (The Wanderer), David Cangelosi (Mime), Werner Van Mechelen (Alberich), Heidi Melton (Brünnhilde), Falk Struckmann (Fafner), Deborah Humble (Erda), Valentina Farcas (Wood-Bird)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
[van Zweden] evokes both its youthful energy and darker undercurrents, with excellent playing from the augmented Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra…But every ‘Siegfried’ hangs on the title role,... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
4 CDs
$34.75Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Special offer. Sheng: Orchestral Works
Juliana Gondek (soprano) & Zhang Qiang (pipa)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Samuel Wong
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, May 2003, Editor's Choice
CD
$13.75Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Special offer. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Matthias Goerne (Wotan), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde - Die Walküre), Heidi Melton (Sieglinde/Brünnhilde - Siegfried), Gun-Brit Barkmin (Brünnhilde - Götterdämmerung), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried - Götterdämmerung), Simon O’Neill (Siegfried - Siegfried); Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
With excellent sound, singing that is often way above average and a production team that appreciates the stormier elements of Wagner’s humbling rhetoric, we have a Ring that shoots straight... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
14 CDs
$76.00Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Of the six works recorded here, two are essential for anyone interested in Busoni: the Berceuseélégiaque and the Sarabande und Cortège. Samuel Wong, music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic,... — More…
CD
$13.75Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Gun-Brit Barkmin (Brünnhilde), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried), Eric Halfvarson (Hagen), Shenyang (Gunther), Amanda Majeski (Gutrune), Peter Kálmán (Alberich), Michelle DeYoung (Waltraute)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
Barkmin brings imagination and flair. It’s quite a ‘white’ voice and not a huge one but she’s a committed projector of the drama. Brenna’s voice, again not heavy but well focused, certainly... — More…
4 CDs
$34.75Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Special offer. Villa-Lobos: Chôros Nos. 8 & 9
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn
CD
$13.75Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Special offer. Christmas with Winchester College Chapel Choir
Sara Macliver (soprano)
Winchester College Chapel Choir, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, William Lacey
The choir of the Boston-based Handel and Haydn Society is a technically formidable unit. Numbering 32 in this recording, they bring forensically precise standards of ensemble… in both Ives'... — More…
CD
$13.75Downloads
Audio formats guide -
what makes this all so absorbing is the way in which Tan Dun uses a plethora of percussive and other effects...to propel [Poem on Three Notes] forward. Clearly the members of the Hong Kong Philharmonic... — More…
CD
$13.75Downloads
Audio formats guide