Blu-Ray Video, Accentus Music (label)
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This disc is of sublime music, gloriously played, and it is one of those occasions when it seems superfluous to say much more…What Sunwook Kim brings to [the last three sonatas], as he also... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Martha Argerich (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (Count Almaviva), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess Almaviva), Anna Prohaska (Susanna), Lauri Vasar (Figaro) & Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino)
Staatsoper Berlin, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) & Jürgen Flimm & Bettina Hartmann (stage directors)
The brouhaha is entertaining in its way, but the essential distinction between the classes is pretty well ignored…The film direction by Hannes Rossacher is good, a particularly moving instance... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Video Performance
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Memorial Concert for Claudio Abbado
Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Faust (violin)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Claudio Abbado
a sombre and moving document...the concert itself begins with the first movement of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony performed without a conductor, the empty podium standing as a conspicuous symbol... — More…
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Simona Saturova (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Christian Elsner (tenor) & Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
MDR Rundfunkchor, GewandhausChor, GewandhausKinderchor & Gewandhausorchester, Herbert Blomstedt
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Mendelssohn & Beethoven: Violin Concertos
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
Znaider’s sweet, richly-coloured tone and painstaking commitment to these two much-played works shines through every bar…with gorgeous, burnished accompaniment from the Gewandhaus players — More…
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The Nobel Prize Concert 2010
Joshua Bell (violin)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
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The concert’s torso makes sense on its own terms – a pair of late and tragic symphonies – and so do the cultivated polish of the Gewandhaus players and the fluent phrase-making of their maestro.... — More…
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Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart & Beethoven
Juliane Banse (soprano), Bruno Ganz (narrator), Christine Schäfer (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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The Mumbai Concerts
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Denis Matsuev (piano), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Mehta is ageing in fine style: the control and precision of his conducting remain phenomenal, yet there is none of the sports car gear-changing which, in earlier vintages, he often seemed unable... — More…
