DVD Video, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (early music ensemble)
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Purcell: King Arthur
sung in English with German dialogue
Anett Fritsch (soprano), Robin Johannsen (soprano), Benno Schachtner (counter-tenor), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Stephan Rügamer (tenor), Arttu Kataja (baritone), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Michael Rotschopf (Arthur), Meike Droste (Emmeline/Mother), Hans-Michael Rehberg (Merlin/ Grandfather), Akademie...
There are effective moments in addition to those predictably generated by Purcell’s irresistible sequences. But the spectacle has an ad hoc, overstuffed quality...Under Jacobs’s direction, Purcell’s... — More…
