Blu-Ray Video, Arthaus Musik (label)
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Strauss: Capriccio
Camilla Nylund (Countess), Christoph Pohl (Count), Daniel Behle (Flamand), Nikolay Borchev (Olivier), Georg Zeppenfeld (La Roche)
Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann, Jens-Daniel Herzog
[Behle] is simply perfect both vocally and dramatically...Nylund’s opulent soprano as a handsome Countess Madeleine is best when she can billow, and the final scene rises to something remarkable...Thielemann... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Blu-ray of the Month
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Jirí Kylián and the Nederlands Dans Theater
Shane Carroll, Nils Christe, Alida Chase, Gerald Tibbs, Marly Knoben, James Vincent, Sabine Kupferberg, Ric McCullough, Susan McKee, Leigh Matthews, Pauline Schenk, Peter Lawrence, Eve Walstrum, Michael Sanders, Joke Zijlstra, Glen Eddy, Leigh Warren
Nederlands Dans Theater
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Strauss, R: Salome
Angela Denoke (Salome), Kim Begley (Herodes), Doris Soffel (Herodias), Alan Held (Jochanaan) & Marcel Reijans (Narraboth)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Soltesz (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director)
Denoke wins her place in the sun as a lithe if hardly sex-kittenish Salome. She has an expressive, secure and slightly dark-timbred voice...Held is a physically and vocally powerful prophet...It's... — More…
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Dance & Quartet
Three Ballets by Heinz Spoerli
Hagen Quartett: Lukas Hagen (1st violin), Rainer Schmidt (2nd violin), Veronika Hagen (viola), Clemens Hagen (violoncello), Soloists: Seh Yun Kim, Arsen Mehrabyan, Soloists: Sarah-Jane Brodbeck, Tigran Mikayelyan, Soloists: Yen Han
Zürcher Ballett
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Inbrunst im Herzen: Famous German Arias & Scenes
Franz Hawlata (bass), Christine Schäfer (soprano), Paul Groves (tenor), Brigitte Fassbander (mezzo), Eva Marton (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), René Kollo (tenor), Waltraud Meier (mezzo)
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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (Katerina Izmailova), Vladimir Vaneev (Boris Izmailov), Vsevolod Grivnov (Zinoviy Izmailov), Sergej Kunaev (Sergei), Nanà Miriani (Aksinya), Natascha Petrinsky (Sonetka)
Orchestra and Chorus of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, James Conlon (conductor) & Lev Dodin (director)
[Conlon] has conducted Shostakovich's masterpiece on both continents… There is plenty of passion in the pit. …New Orleans-raised Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet proves a powerful if one-dimensional... — More…
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Opera, March 2010, Recording of the Month
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Poulenc: Le Voix Humaine & Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Barbara Hannigan (Elle), Ekaterina Gubanova (Judit), John Relyea (Bluebeard)
Paris Opera Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Krzysztof Warlikowski
A solid, uncontroversial staging of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle which works well – with two outstanding performers – bonded to a perverse one of Poulenc’s monodrama which does not. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Video Performance
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Britten‘s War Requiem: 50th anniversary in Coventry
Erin Wall (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus & CBSO Youth Chorus, Andris Nelsons
The three soloists are not, perhaps, quite as eminently as the originals, but they're all excellent...[Nelsons's] un-English reading, more tautly controlled and vigorous than Britten's own,... — More…
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Strauss, R: Feuersnot
Nicola Beller Carbone (Diemut), Dietrich Henschel (Kunrad), Alex Wawiloff (Schweiker von Gundelfingen) & Ruben Amoretti (Ortolf Sentlinger)
Orchestra, Chorus and Youth Chorus of the Teatro Massimo, Gabriele Ferro (conductor) & Emma Dante (stage director)
Ferro's conducting is perfectly decent, while there's lively work from the children's chorus especially, giving the lie to the idea that their part is too difficult to be practicable. It's difficult... — More…
