Blu-Ray Video, Berlioz (composer)
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Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict
RecommendedStéphanie d’Oustrac (Béatrice), Paul Appleby (Bénédict), Philippe Sly (Claudio), Sophie Karthäuser (Hero), Lionel Lhote (Somarone), Frédéric Caton (Don Pedro) & Katarina Bradić (Ursule)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Antonello Manacorda, Laurent Pelly (director)
This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today...The LPO rise magnificently to the... — More…
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Opera Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Bryan Hymel (Énée), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Didon), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre), Fabio Capitanucci (Chorebe), Hanna Hipp (Anna), Brindley Sherratt (Narbal), Ed Lyon (Hylas), Ji-min Park (Iopas)
Royal Opera House, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir David McVicar
It's powerful in all senses, not least Antonio Pappano's conducting, which is dramatically hard-driven but not without atmosphere, making the love music luminously sensuous...The huge cast is... — More…
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Lucile Richardot (contralto)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
DVD Video + Blu-ray
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Midsummer Night's Gala Grafenegg
Pretty Yende (soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Harriet Krijgh (cello)
Tonkunstler Orchestra, Yutaka Sado
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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24
Anne Sofie von Otter (Marguerite), Keith Lewis (Faust), José van Dam (Méphistophélès) & Peter Rose (Brander)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Georg Solti
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Gergiev At the Proms
Live from the 2016 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
Münchner Philharmoniker, Valery Gergiev
The occasion is Valery Gergiev’s appearance at the 2016 BBC Proms in his first season with the Munich Philharmonic. Opening with Bolero underlines the sense of showcasing his new toy: it is... — More… -
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Burkhard Fritz (Benvenuto Cellini), Maija Kovalevska (Teresa), Laurent Naouri (Fieramosca), Brindley Sherratt (Giacomo Balducci), Mikhail Petrenko (Pope Clemens VII) & Kate Aldrich (Ascanio)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Valery Gergiev
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Daniela Barcellona (Didon), Lance Ryan (Énée), Elisabete Matos (Cassandre), Giorgio Giuseppini (Panthée), Gabriele Viviani (Chorebe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Eric Cutler (Iopas), Dmitri Voropaev (Hylas), Zlata Bulicheva (Anna), Askar Abdrazaov (Priam), Oksana Shilvoa (Ascagne)
Orquestra de...
while Padrissa's computer projections and airborne acrobats achieve memorable visions, he underproduces the human element. Embattled Troy is a dystopian ruin under nuclear dustclouds, the robotic... — More…
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Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
John Osborn (Benvenuto Cellini), Mariangela Sicilia (Teresa), Maurizio Muraro (Balducci), Michèle Losier (Ascanio), Laurent Naouri (Fieramosca), Orlin Anastassov (Le Pape Clément VII)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder, Terry Gilliam
Elder conducts a thrillingly vibrant and entirely idiomatic account…Gilliam’s extraordinary eye for visual fantasy, cartoonish comedy and endless japes, meanwhile, matches the music surprisingly... — More…
