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25 Years German Reunification
Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger (soprano), Doris Soffel (mezzo-soprano), James Wagner (tenor) & Gwynne Howell (bass)
Gewandhaus Choir and Orchestra
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Janowski works thoughtfully with Dejours on translating musical ideas into sound through unselfconscious gestures. — More…
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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38
Dame Janet Baker (The Angel), John Shirley Quirk (The Priest & The Angel of the agony) & Peter Pears (Gerontius)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Sir Adrian Boult
Boult’s handling of the Prelude, and his masterly accompaniment – especially to Janet Baker’s radiant final benediction – is so beautiful, so magisterial in its intensity, that it feels as though... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, DVD of the Month
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Music is the language of the heart and soul
A portrait of Mariss Jansons
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Concertgebouw Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Choir, Mariss Jansons
Most valuable is the footage of his father, conductor Arvid Jansons, and of his own early days as a Herbert von Karajan protege...Of Jansons's humanity and penetrating gifts as a conductor we... — More…
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France
Cathedrals and Megaliths, Calvaries and Tapestries from Brittany to the Loire
Lisa Beckley (soprano), Nicholas Gedge (bass-baritone), Colm Carey (organ)
Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Oxford Camerata, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jeremy Summerly, Keith Clark, Ondrej Lenárd
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A Tribute to Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Urbański, Anne-Sophie Mutter & Daniel Müller-Schott
Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Krzysztof Urbaski
[the Threnody's] extremes of timbre and texture still leave a fearsome impression - not least in a reading as unsparing as that which Krzysztof Urbanski here obtains from the Warsaw Philharmonic... — More…
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Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
A Film by Tony Palmer
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
The London Sinfonietta, David Zinman
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Of Love, Death and Beyond: Exploring Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony
Thomas Hampson (narrator), Twyla Robinson (soprano), Susanne Mentzer (mezzo)
Neeme Järvi
One disc offers a sumptuously presented, passionate analysis of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. The other contains a full performance from 2006 - clean and burnished. — More…
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