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, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (orchestra)
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Albert Dohmen (Hans Sachs), Robert Dean Smith (Walther), Edith Haller (Eva), Dietrich Henschel (Beckmesser), Peter Sonn (David), Michelle Breedt (Magdalene), Georg Zeppenfeld (Pogner)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
[a good Meistersinger] should show teamwork among the soloists and a good balance between the conversational style of much of the singing and the grandeur of the orchestral accompaniment. On... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Opera Choice
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer RecommendedAlbert Dohmen (Der Holländer), Ricarda Merbeth (Senta), Matti Salminen (Daland), Robert Dean Smith (Erik), Silvia Hablowetz (Mary), Steve Davislim (Steuermann)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Janowski's conducting is crisp and fleet-footed, shaping the music naturally and fluently...[Dohmen] is a warm anti-hero, but too soft-grained to sound demonically desperate. Matti Salminen's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th September 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Siegfried RecommendedTomasz Konieczny (Der Wanderer/Wotan), Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde), Anna Larsson (Erda), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Christian Elsner (Mime), Sophie Klußmann (Stimme eines Waldvogels)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
This is a lively and enjoyable performance of what Wagner called his 'heroic comedy'...listen to the short but dense Prelude and you'll hear many things that you won't have heard on any other... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Zemlinsky: Der Kreidekreis Renate Behle, Roland Hermann, Reiner Goldberg, Siegfried Lorenz & Celina Lindsley
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Soltesz
Zemlinsky's penultimate opera is surprisingly austere. Strong performances, but the lack of text and translations is disappointing as there's much spoken dialogue. — More…
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Krenek: Sardakai, Op. 206 Ksenija Lucic, Egbert Junghanns, Markus Köhler, Cornelia Entling, Jörg Dürmüller & Maacha Deubner
Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, Reinhard Schmiedel
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Puccini: Il tabarro Kurt Rehm, Irmgard Arnold, Hermin Esser, Harald Neukirch, Reiner Süß, Gertraud Prenzlow, Karl Schrepper & Hildegard Klemke
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Rolf Kleinert
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a very generous representation of the score, in superb sound. The music itself is magnificent: composed in a ripe late-Romantic idiom with some jazz colouring, it's held together by a series... — More…
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Schmidt, F: Notre Dame Hartmut Welker (baritone), Kurt Moll (bass), James King (tenor), Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Hans Helm (baritone), Horst R. Laubenthal (tenor), Andreas Juffinger (organ), Kaja Borris (mezzo-soprano)
RIAS Chamber Chorus, St. Hedwig's Cathedral Choir, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christof Perick
A sumptuous late-Romantic score with exotic gypsy music for Esmeralda. Jones and King sound too mature for young lovers, but the performance is compelling. — More…
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Schreker: Der Ferne Klang Thomas Moser (tenor), Gabrielle Schnaut (mezzo), Siegmund Nimsgern (bass), Julia Juon (mezzo-soprano), Robert Worle (tenor), Roland Hermann (baritone), Peter Haage (tenor), Gidon Saks (bass-baritone), Gudrun Sieber (soprano), Victor van Halem (bass), Hans Helm (baritone), Johannes Werner Prein (bass),...
Fine studio recording of Schreker's first successful opera. Although Schnaut as Grete has some tuning problems, the rest of the cast is convincing and the orchestra plays with great finesse. — More…
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Hindemith: The Long Christmas Dinner (Das lange Weihnachtsmahl) Ruth Ziesak (Lucia, Lucia II), Ursula Hesse von den Steinen (Mother Bayard, Ermengarde), Herman Wallén (Roderick, Sam), Arutjun Kotchinian (Brandon), Christian Elsner (Charles), Rebecca Martin (Genevieve), Michaela Kaune (Leonora) & Corby Welch (Roderick II)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin,...
Hindemith's final and least-known opera, based on a 1931 play by Thornton Wilder, Das langeWeihnachtsmahl ('The Long Christmas Dinner') is – like his earliest essays in the genre – cast in a... — More…
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