DVD Video, Accentus Music (label)
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Berg: Wozzeck
RecommendedChristian Gerhaher (Wozzeck), Brandon Jovanovich (Drum Major), Mauro Peter (Andres), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Captain), Lars Woldt (Doctor) & Gun-Brit Barkmin (Marie)
Chor der Oper Zurich & Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Andreas Homoki (stage director)
While the Lieder-like beauty of Gerhaher’s singing Is matchless – he can act too – this is no star vehicle. It is ensemble work of the highest order…the relationships are brilliantly drawn,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, DVD/Blu-ray Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Opera
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Video Performance
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This captures much of the peerless tone-colour, shape, drive and above all those hushed dynamics of [the] performance, awarded what feels like an infinite silence at the end...Abbado's pacing... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, DVD Award Winner
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the Leipzig players do [Chailly] proud. There are so many stunning solos, from tenor horn at the start to the first trumpet who never splits brilliant top notes in the finale, that names should... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Video Performance
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Riccardo Chailly - Concert, Opera, Documentary
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Orquesta de La Comunitat Valenciana, Lars Vogt, Nikolaj Znaider, Riccardo Chailly
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Performances & Documentaries
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Baiba Skride (violin)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
This Fifth might even be caricatured as vaguely retro...The Leipzig team works hard to invigorate old-school expressive intentions with precise, sometimes glorious playing...The concerto may... — More…
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[La valse] is extremely fine, as indeed are the Daphnis Suites, where the playing is superbly accomplished in its understated virtuosity and Chailly is marvellously acute in his understanding... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Clarity with power, clear balances and ferocity combined: Riccardo Chailly's latest Mahler Five surely has the best of all possible worlds for this comprehensive darkness-to-light epic. It's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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There is nothing inappropriate or anticlimactic about this performance…You can see the right emotions featured in Chailly’s face. His eyes are shut, Karajan-like, at the creation of the world,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Claudio Abbado conducts Prokofiev, Berg & Tchaikovsky
Lucerne Festival at Easter 2010
Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Claudio Abbado
It's amazing the way Abbado brings the melodic writing to the fore in the very different worlds of the Prokofiev and the Berg Lulu Suite, crowned by Anna Prohaska's meaningful characterisation...As... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, DVD Choice
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