DVD Video, Accentus Music (label)
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Erika Sunnegårdh (soprano), Ricarda Merbeth (soprano), Christiane Oelze (soprano), Lioba Braun (alto), Gerhild Romberger (alto), Stephen Gould (tenor), Dietrich Henschel (baritone) & Georg Zeppenfeld (bass)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
How good to see Riccardo Chailly so radiant at the end of this great event. It's an exhilaration he earns through sheer work as well as injecting the adrenalin at most of the right moments...Chailly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, 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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Verdi: Requiem
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano). Veronica Simeoni (mezzo-soprano), Francesco Meli (tenor), Georg Zeppenfeld (bass)
Ballett Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich, Chor und Zusatzchor der Oper Zürich, Fabio Luisi, Christian Spuck (choreographer)
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tolzer Knabenchor, Riccardo Chailly
As you would expect from a handpicked band, the orchestral playing is consistently glorious. The contribution of the combined choirs is authoritative and there is a fine team of soloists, in... — More…
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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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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Simona Saturova (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Christian Elsner (tenor) & Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
MDR Rundfunkchor, GewandhausChor, GewandhausKinderchor & Gewandhausorchester, Herbert Blomstedt
[Blomstedt] looks as vigorous and youthful as ever, conducting (without a score or a baton) Beethoven's Ninth with no detail spared — More…
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A Concert for New York
In Remembrance and Renewal - The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) & Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert has the right sense of momentum and expectation — More…
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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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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…
