DVD Video, C Major (label)
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Yuja comes alive, it seems, only when she is on stage playing the piano, as is vividly demonstrated by the documentary and the complete performances of Rhapsody in Blue and the Ravel G major... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
RecommendedPeter Serkin (piano), Yo-Yo Ma (cello & director), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano), James Taylor (vocals & guitar)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Pops Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, David Zinman, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons,...
If this all sounds rather eclectic, well, yes it is – but it all hangs together beautifully as a celebration of the festival’s diversity and joie de vivre. The performance styles, too, come... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2013
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Brahms: Double Concerto
Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
The real highlight of this well-produced DVD is the Tchaikovsky, which is a winner from start to finish. — More…
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Marc Minkowski at Mozartwoche
Mozartwoche Salzburg, 2015
Francesco Corti (fortepiano), Thibault Noally (violin)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
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András Schiff at Mozartwoche
Recording Date: Mozartwoche Salzburg, 2015
András Schiff (piano & conductor)
Orchestra Cappella Andrea Barca
This is not Beethoven the nascent revolutionary, angrily tearing up the keyboard, but Beethoven the classicist…the slow movement of K482 is a highlight, with some particularly rapt playing from... — More…
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Salzburg Festival Opening Concert 2010
Daniel Barenboim (piano), Dorothea Roschmann (soprano), Elīna Garanča (mezzo), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus State Opera Vienna
there is no doubting the powerful authority that characterizes Barenboim's direction of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto from the keyboard. Perhaps rather unexpectedly, the magic really starts... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' & B A Zimmermann: Nobody knows de trouble I see
Ekaterina Gubanova (contralto), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Andris Nelsons
[Zimmerman] The idiom is bluesy and jazzy, with an electric organ warbling in the background alongside a piano and reduced jazz-band forces. The star trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger is no square... — More…
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Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – The Salzburg Concerts
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
captures the sense of music-making on the wing...rarely has the final coda erupted with such overwhelming joy. The same electrifying concentration informs performances of Schoenberg's Variations... — More…
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Brahms: The Piano Concertos
Wiener Musikverein, 2015
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta
There's always something heroic about Rudolf Buchbinder's exploits...He never takes the easy route when an option exists to duck a score's extreme technical demands, and his readings are unfailingly... — More…
