Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
We're delighted to offer a more affordable way to begin or continue your opera journey, with up to 40% off selected titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, until 14th August 2024.
Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Simone Young (conductor)
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Christian Franz (Siegfried), John Tomlinson (Hagen), Wolfgang Koch (Alberich), Robert Bork (Gunther), Anna Gabler (Gutrune), Petra Lang (Waltraute), Deborah Humble (Erste Norn), Cristina Damian (Zweite Norn), Katja Pieweck (Dritte Norn), Ha Young Lee (Woglinde), Maria...
Wolfgang Koch [sic - Koch actually sings Alberich, Robert Bork Gunther] and Anna Gabler are outstanding as Gunther and Gutrune. Simone Young's conducting is ardent, sometimes coarse, but always... — More…
4 CDs
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Hindemith: Mathis der Maler Falk Struckmann, Scott MacAllister, Susan Anthony, Inga Kalna & Par Lindskog
Hamburg Opera, Simone Young
3 CDs
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Wagner: Die Walküre Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Yvonne Naef (Sieglinde), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding), Jeanne Piland (Fricka), Hellen Kwon (Gerhilde), Miriam Gordon-Stewart (Helmwige), Gabriele Rossmanith (Ortlinde), Katja Pieweck (Siegrune), Renate Spingler (Rossweiße),...
Young's balancing of orchestral textures is interestingly calculated, often novel, and most attentive to the written dynamics. …Polaski… is compelling. With Struckmann's Wotan… she achieves... — More…
4 CDs
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Schmidt, F: Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln (The Book of the Seven Seals) Klaus Florian Vogt (Johannes), Georg Zeppenfeld (Stimme des Herrn), Inga Kalna (soprano), Bettina Ranch (mezzo soprano), Dovlet Nurgeldiyev (tenor), Volker Krafft (organ)
NDR Choir, Latvia State Choir & Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra, Simone Young
there's little doubt of [the] musical mastery which combines the harmonic sophistication of the Austro-German late-Romantic style with many passages of contrapuntal virtuosity that allude to... — More…
2 CDs
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Wagner: Das Rheingold Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Peter Galliard (Loge), Wolfgang Koch (Alberich), Jürgen Sacher (Mime), Tigran Martirossian (Fasolt), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Fafner), Jan Buchwald (Donner), Ladislav Elgr (Froh), Katja Pieweck (Fricka), Hellen Kwon (Freia), Deborah Humble (Erda), Ha Young Lee (Woglinde), Gabriele...
Das Rheingold is a work of intensely dramatic exposition… This Hamburg performance… goes all for the drama, to the point where the characters sometimes almost stop singing and begin to shout.... — More…
2 CDs
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Wagner: Siegfried Christian Franz (Siegfried), Peter Galliard (Mime), Falk Struckmann (Der Wanderer), Wolfgang Koch (Alberich), Diogenes Randes (Fafner), Deborah Humble (Erda), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde) & Ha Young Lee (Stimme des Waldvogels)
Hamburg State Opera & Philharmoniker Hamburg, Simone Young
Christian Franz, though by no means ideal, has many of the qualities the role needs, including a pleasant voice and staying power...He also shows a sense of poetry, so that he doesn't come across... — More…
4 CDs
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Henze: Das Verratene Meer Josh Lovell (Noboru/Nummer Drei), Vera-Lotte Boecker (Fusako Kuroda), Bo Skovhus (Ryuji Tsukazaki), Erik Van Heyningen (Nummer Eins), Kangmin Justin Kim (Nummer Zwei), Stefan Astakhov (Nummer Vier), Martin Hassler (Nummer Funf), Jorg Schneider (Stimme eines Schiffsmaats), Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper,...
[Young] unleashes the full force of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, the violence of its outbursts all the more powerful for the tautness of its control. Her focus is ferocious, and she never... — More…
2 CDs
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Reimann, A: Lear Bo Skovhus (König Lear), Katja Pieweck (Goneril), Hellen Kwon (Regan), Siobhan Stagg (Cordelia) & Erwin Leder (Narr)
Philharmoniker Hamburg & Chor der Staatsoper Hamburg, Simone Young (conductor) & Karoline Gruber (stage director)
Their Lear's score is based on quick-moving accompanied recitative with underlaying or interposed instrumental mood and atmospheric descriptions...The energy and pace of the Reimann bear witness... — More…
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Janáček: From The House of The Dead Peter Rose (Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov), Evgeniya Sotnikova (Aljeja), Aleš Briscein (Luka Kuzmič/Filka Morozov), Charles Workman (Skuratov), Bo Skovhus (Šiškov), Christian Rieger (Prison governor), Manuel Günther (Nikita, Big Prisoner), Tim Kuypers (Small Prisoner), Ulrich Reß (Old Prisoner),...
This production’s somewhat extreme view of humanity leaves rather little redemption on show…The humanity is in the music, of course, and especially here in Simone Young’s interpretation, softer-edged... — More…
