DVD Video, Berlioz (composer)
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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
RecommendedMichael Spyres (Faust), Joyce DiDonato (Marguerite), Nicolas Courjal (Méphistophélès), Alexandre Duhamel (Brander)
Coro Gulbenkian, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, John Nelson
Nelson has a great feel for the weird structure of the piece, with its sudden lurches of pace and location...Nelson’s pacing is uncannily ‘right’; he’s not one to force Berlioz, period-style,... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd November 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (DiDonato)
2 CDs + DVD Video
$31.25Downloads
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedBryan Hymel (Énée), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Didon), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre), Fabio Capitanucci (Chorebe), Hanna Hipp (Anna), Brindley Sherratt (Narbal), Ed Lyon (Hylas), Ji-min Park (Iopas)
Royal Opera House, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir David McVicar
It's powerful in all senses, not least Antonio Pappano's conducting, which is dramatically hard-driven but not without atmosphere, making the love music luminously sensuous...The huge cast is... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Opera
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th October 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, DVD Choice
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Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict
RecommendedStéphanie d’Oustrac (Béatrice), Paul Appleby (Bénédict), Philippe Sly (Claudio), Sophie Karthäuser (Hero), Lionel Lhote (Somarone), Frédéric Caton (Don Pedro) & Katarina Bradić (Ursule)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Antonello Manacorda, Laurent Pelly (director)
This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today...The LPO rise magnificently to the... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Opera Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Lionel Bringuier & Nelson Freire Live at the Royal Albert Hall Nelson Freire (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Bringuier
Bringuier's evident penchant for chamber-like clarity reaps rewards in a taut yet genial reading [of the Roussel]...In the midst of their annual Proms marathon, these performances have a start... — More…
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Sir Colin Davis Anthology
Limited Edition of 5000
Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... — More…
8 SACDs + CD + DVD Video
$39.00Downloads
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Lucile Richardot (contralto)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
DVD Video + Blu-ray
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Mariss Jansons Live: The Radio Recordings 1990-2014
Sergei Leiferkus (narrator), Emanuel Ax (piano), Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Mariss Jansons
13 CDs + DVD Video
$105.25Downloads
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27 CDs + 3 DVD Videos
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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Mathias Vidal (Faust), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Marguerite), Nicolas Courjal (Méphistophélès), Thibault de Damas d’Anlezy (Brander)
Les Siècles, Chœur Marguerite Louise, François-Xavier Roth
This concert performance from Versailles’ Opéra Royal last November is a curio – almost perfection sits alongside over-cleanness and lack of drama, an almost Karajan-like tidying-up of corners…The... — More…
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Midsummer Night's Gala Grafenegg
Pretty Yende (soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Harriet Krijgh (cello)
Tonkunstler Orchestra, Yutaka Sado
