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, Jochen Schmeckenbecher (baritone)
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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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Schubert: Alfonso und Estrella, D732 Eva Mei (Estrella), Rainer Trost (Alfonso), Markus Werba (Frolia), Alfred Muff (Adolfo), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Mauregato)
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Gérard Korsten
2 CDs
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Wagner: Das Rheingold Terje Stensvold (Wotan), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Kurt Streit (Loge), Martina Dicke (Fricka), Barbara Zechmeister (Freia), Magnus Baldvinsson (Fafner), Alfred Reiter (Fasolt), Hans-Jurgen Lazar (Mime), Dietrich Volle (Donner), Richard Cox (Froh), Meredith Arwady (Erda), Britta Stallmeister...
Stensvold is a relatively late-starting but true-sounding baritone Wotan who phrases the god's pronouncements well. Kurt Streit has not lost the subtlety of his Ferrando in his refreshingly... — More…
2 CDs
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Strauss, J, II: Der Zigeunerbaron Nikolai Schukoff (Sándor Barinkay), Heinz Zednik (Conte Carnero), Renate Pitscheider (Mirabella), Claudia Barainsky (Saffi), Markus Brüc (Graf Homonay), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Kálmán Zsupán), Jasmina Sakr (Arsena), Khatuna Mikaberidze (Czipra), Paul Kaufmann (Ottokar / Pali) & Lawrence Foster...
As Barinkay, Nikolai Schukoff has an agreeable swagger, even if his voice has a tendency to flare at the top. Claudia Barainsky is a red-blooded Saffi and Khatuna Mikaberidze provides depth... — More…
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus Laura Aikin (Rosalinde), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Frank), Elisabeth Kulman (Prinz Orlofsky), Christian Elsner (Alfred), Matthias Hausmann (Dr. Falke), Alexander Kaimbacher (Dr. Blind), Annika Gerhards (Adele), Alice Waginger (Ida) & Kurt Rydl (Frosch); NDR Radiophilharmonie, Lawrence Foster
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Wagner: Das Rheingold Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Christian Elsner (Loge), Iris Vermillion (Fricka), Günther Groissböck (Fasolt), Timo Riihonen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Ricarda Merberth (Freia), Andreas Conrad (Mime), Maria Radner (Erda), Julia Borchert (Woglinde), Katharina Kammerloher (Wellgunde),...
This is superbly recorded, mainly wonderfully played , interestingly conducted and reasonably well sung...dramatically gripping as only a well-conducted Rheingold can be...The best reason for... — More…
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung Susan Bullock (Brunnhilde), Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Gregory Frank (Hagen), Claudia Mahnke (Waltraute/Zweite Norn), Johannes Martin Kranzle (Gunther), Anja Fidelia Ulrich (Gutrune), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Britta Stallmeister (Woglinde), Jenny Carlstedt (Wellgunde), Katharina Magiera (Flosshilde),...
Weigle, an experienced Wagnerian, paces the opera well, with dramatic thrust and epic expansiveness...Bullock's Brunnhilde has the spirit and plenty of it, but vocal strain is more apparent... — More…
4 CDs
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Edith Haller (Gutrune), Markus Bruck (Gunther), Marina Prudenskaja (Waltraute), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Susanne Resmark (Erste Norn), Christa Mayer (Zweite Norn), Jacquelyn Wagner (Dritte Norn), Julia Borchert (Woglinde),...
there is much to enjoy and a lot to write home about...The sound of the orchestra really gleams throughout. The brass sound fantastic at the big climaxes...[Salminen's] acting leaps out of the... — More…
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Wagner: Siegfried Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Peter Marsh (Mime), Terje Stensvold (Der Wanderer), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Magnús Baldvinsson (Fafner), Meredith Arwady (Erda), Susan Bullock (Brunnhilde), Kateryna Kasper (Woodbird)
Frankfurter Opern und Museumsorchester, Sebastian Weigle
Weigle conducts superbly, bringing many original and fine ideas to this amazingly fresh score and building up great momentum over entire acts...[Bullock's] awakening is shrill and insecure,... — More…
4 CDs
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Albert, E: Tiefland Lisa Gasteen (Marta), Johan Botha (Pedro), Falk Struckman (Sebastiano), Kwangchul Youn (Tommaso), Raymond Very (Nando)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Singakademie & Heinz Ferlesch Choreinstudierung, Bertrand De Billy
2 CDs
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