DVD Video, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
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Cecilia Bartoli sings Mozart & Haydn
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Haydn: Il mondo della luna
Dietrich Henschel (Buonafede), Vivica Genaux (Ernesto), Bernard Richter (Ecclitico), Christina Landshamer (Clarice), Maite Beaumont (Lisetta), Markus Schafer (Cecco)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) & Tobias Moretti (director)
With the ever-responsive Concentus Musicus, [Harnoncourt] duly mines the comically disruptive potential of Haydn's music with unabashed glee... The comic leads are ideally cast...an inventive,... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, DVD of the Month
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Mozart: Don Giovanni (DVD)
The Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cycle
Andrè Schuen (Don Giovanni), Ruben Drole, Christine Schäfer (Donna Anna), Mauro Peter (Don Ottavio), Maite Beaumont (Donna Elvira), Mari Eriksmoen (Zerlina)
Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
this is a Mozart with a difference: rather than interpreting, singers and orchestra confront text and music with a liveliness and intensity that should also compel viewers to see things differently. — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte
Mari Eriksmoen (Fiordiligi), Katija Dragojevic (Dorabella), Mauro Peter (Ferrando), Andrè Schuen (Guglielmo), Elisabeth Kulman (Despina), Markus Werba (Don Alfonso), Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
this is a Mozart with a difference: rather than interpreting, singers and orchestra confront text and music with a liveliness and intensity that should also compel viewers to see things differently. — More…
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Camilla Nylund (Leonore), Alfred Muff (Don Pizarro) & László Polgár (Rocco)
Orchestra and Chorus of The Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Jonas Kaufmann and Camilla Nylund fearlessly [pack] every phrase with compellingly truthful shades of meaning. Harnoncourt's Beethoven is famously raw and earthy: strong on struggle and on the... — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Edita Gruberova, Teresa Stratas, Luis Lima & Ferruccio Furlanetto
Wiener Philharmoniker, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Werner Gröschel (Kuno), Inga Nielsen (Agathe), Malin Hartelius (Ännchen), Matti Salminen (Kaspar) & Peter Seiffert (Max)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor & Ruth Berghaus (stage director)
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Handel: Rodelinda
Danielle de Niese (Rodelinda), Bejun Mehta (Bertarido), Kurt Streit (Grimoaldo), Konstantin Wolff (Garibaldo), Malena Ernman (Eduige) & Matthias Rexroth (Unulfo)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
If the title-role heroine remains an enigma - half-Penelope, half-Medea - and is more kitten than tigress in Danielle de Niese's palely sung interpretation, Harnoncourt Jnr has done much to... — More…
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Schumann: Genoveva
Juliane Banse (Genoveva), Shawn Mathey (Golo), Martin Gantner (Siegfried), Cornelia Kallisch (Margaretha), Alfred Muff (Drago), Ruben Drole (Hidulfus), Tomasz Slawinski (Balthasar), Matthew Leigh (Caspar)
Orchestra and Chorus of The Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) &...
Nikolaus Harnoncourt is often too four-square and unatmospheric in Romantic scores, but here his taut tempos and incisive phrasing are refreshing, making the rich choral passages splendidly... — More…
