DVD Video, Accentus Music (label)
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Xiao-Mei draws a glorious, lyrical sound forom the piano - by turns lustrous, glittering, glassy - bringing out individual strands of even the most complex polyphony with exquisite lucidity.... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Special Achievement Award
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Midori plays with balletic grace and intense concentration…There is something profoundly moving about hearing Bach in the very spaces in which [Bach] would have played these works, and one cannot... — More…
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Music - A Journey for Life - Riccardo Chailly
A Portrait by Paul Smaczny
Lars Vogt (piano), Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
As a snapshot... it makes for fascinating, often charming viewing, and it gives a valuable insight into both Chailly’s approach to what he conducts – he loves rehearsing, but always keeps something... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, DVD of the Month
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Benedikt Kristjánsson (Evangelist), Krešimir Stražanac (Jesus), Gerlinde Sämann (soprano), Isabel Jantschek (soprano), Benno Schachtner (alto), Paul Schweinester (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)
Gaechinger Cantorey, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Friederike Rademann (choreography and artistic direction)
In this choreographed Passion there are two discrete but overlapping layers of action...Bach’s elaborated setting of St Matthew is peculiarly suited to such an approach...The vocal soloists... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, DVD of the Month
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The mainly Czech Collegium 1704 are a lively bunch, and give boisterously enjoyable and celebratory performances of these familiar masterpieces. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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C P E Bach: The 1786 Charity Concert - A Revival
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (alto), Lothar Odinius (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (bass)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann
Rademann captures the elusive aesthetic of music from the years between the Baroque and Classical styles...The camera work is nicely paced, sometimes musically sensitive, sometimes catching... — More…
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Gloria In Excelsis Deo
Festive Christmas Music
Ruth Ziesak (soprano)
Church of St Mary, Marienberg, The Saxony Philharmonic Wind Orchestra, Rundfunk – Jugendchor Wernigerode & Ensemble Sonora, Thomas Clamor
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (alto), Wolfram Lattke (tenor) & Luca Pisaroni (bass)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Dresdner Kammerchor, Herbert Blomstedt
Blomstedt is never bent on point-scoring didacticism, His is a truthful account; prayerful, reverential, intent on welding the disparate movements into a caressing over-arching entity… Among... — More…
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Reglint Bühler (soprano), Susanne Krumbiegel (mezzo‐soprano), Susanne Langner (alto), Martin Lattke (tenor) & Markus Flaig (bass)
Thomanerchor Leipzig & Freiburger Barockorchester (playing on authentic period instruments), Georg Christoph Biller
The Thomanerchor is superb. Trebles match the confidence and facility of any adult choir...The Freibarockorchester matches their fluency and stylistic sensitivity...In the arias, the communication... — More…
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Stefan Kahle (alto), Wolfram Lattke (tenor), Martin Lattke (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Gotthold Schwarz (bass)
St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, St. Thomas Cantor Georg Christoph Biller
This is a performance which has Bach liturgically wired into its DNA...Biller's direction exudes profound integrity and commitment, the chorales in particular shaped by a deeply-felt inevitability...this... — More…
