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Elīna Garanča goes Spanish
23rd Aug 2010
The Latvian mezzo sings the title-role in Bizet’s Carmen from the Metropolitan Opera on DVD, and explores gypsy music still further on her new recital Habanera, which includes music from zarzuela, operetta and musical theatre.
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Rued Langgaard - Music of the Spheres
16th Aug 2010
Composed during World War One when the Danish composer was just 26, this experimental and forward-looking work received its UK premiere only last week – Thomas Dausgaard does it proud in this new recording with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
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Gramophone Awards - The Finalists
9th Aug 2010
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50 Years of the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg
2nd Aug 2010
The Austrian festival celebrates its half-century by re-issuing a25-CD boxed set featuring five complete operas, ten orchestral concerts and two recitals – including the first release of an Alfred Brendel recital from 2007.
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50 YEARS: Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg
Lisa della Casa (Marschallin), Sena Jurinac (Oktavian), Hilde Güden (Sophie), Otto Edelmann (Ochs), Erich Kunz (Faninal), Waldemar Kmentt (Idomeneo), Ernst Häfliger (Idamante), Pilar Lorengar (Ilia), Elisabeth Grümmer (Elettra), Renato Capecchi (Arbace), Eberhard Waechter (Gran Sacerdote di Nettuno), Georg Littasy (La Voce), Cheryl Studer, Jessye Norman, Placido Domingo, Kurt Moll, Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Margaret Price, Judith Blegen, Gerti Zeumer, Trudeliese Schmidt, Agnes Baltsa, Kenneth Riegel, Hermann Prey, José Van Dam, Peter Mattei (Onegin), Anna Samuil (Tatyana), Joseph Kaiser (Lensky), Ekaterina Gubanova (Olga), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Gremin), Anna Netrebko (Violetta), Rolando Villazon (Alfredo), Thomas Hampson (Giorgio Germont), Elzbieta Szmytka (Alyeya), Barry McCauley (Luka), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Goryanchikov), Harry Peeters (Commandant), Philip Langridge (Skuratoy), Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire (piano), Alfred Brendel (piano) Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Phiharmoniker, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Berliner Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leipziger Rundfunkchor, Schwedischer Rundfunkchor, Eric-Ericson-Kammerchor, Wiener Sängerknaben, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Herbert von Karajan, Ferenc Fricsay, Pierre Boulez, Claudio Abbado, Georg Solti, James Levine, Riccardo Muti, Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Karl Böhm, Daniel Barenboim, Carlo Rizzi
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Gustav Mahler
26th Jul 2010
Deutsche Grammophon and EMI commemorate the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth with lavish complete editions featuring performances from artists including Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Otto Klemperer and Simon Rattle.
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Sir Charles Mackerras
19th Jul 2010
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Janacek -The Operas
Elisabeth Söderström (Jenufa), Eva Randova (Kostelnicka), Petr Dvorsky (Steva), Vaclav Zitek (Sterek), Marie Mrazova (Starenka), Dalibor Jedlicka (Rychtar), Wieslaw Ochman (Laca), Lucia Popp (Karolka), Lucia Popp (Vixen), Eva Randová (Fox), Dalibor Jedliaka (Forester), Dalibor Jedlicka (Gorjancikov), Jaroslava Janská (Aljeja), Jiri Zahradnicek (Luka), Ivo Zidek (Skuratov), Elisabeth Söderström (Emilia Marty), Petr Dvorský (Albert Gregor), Vladimir Krejcik (Vítek), Anna Czaková (Kristina), Václav Zítek (Jaroslav Prus), Zdenek Svehla (Janek Prus), Dalibor Jedlicka (Dr Kolenatý), Jirí Joran (Strjník), Ivana Mixová (Poklízečka), Beno Blachut (Count Haukšendorf), Blanka Vitková (Komorná), Elisabeth Söderström (Katya), Petr Dvorsky (Boris), Nedezda Kniplová (Kabanicha), Vladimir Krejcik (Tichon), Libuse Márová (Varvara), Dalibor Jedlicka (Dikoj) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Beethoven - Paul Lewis and the BBC Proms
12th Jul 2010
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Ronald Brautigam's Beethoven
28th Jun 2010
The Dutch fortepianist completes his outstanding cycle of the complete sonatas on BIS, with revelatory accounts of Opp. 101 and 109-111.
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Handel's Berenice
14th Jun 2010
Alan Curtis presides over a highly persuasive account of Handel’s late opera with Il Complesso Barocco, starring Klara Ek in the title-role and Argentine countertenor Franco Fagioli as Demetrio.
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Alfredo Casella
31st May 2010
Gianandrea Noseda and Francesco La Vecchia offer sterling advocacy for the Italian composer’s first two symphonies, composed in the first decade of the twentieth century and full of ‘imaginative orchestration and dark sonorities’.
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Shostakovich Preludes & Fugues from Melnikov
24th May 2010
The Russian pianist brings atmosphere, mystery, weight and solemnity to the 24 Preludes and Fugues dedicated to Tatiana Nikolayeva.
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The multi-talented Julia Fischer
17th May 2010
The German violinist joins Martin Helmchen at the keyboard for the F minor Fantaisie for Piano Four Hands in her debut recording as a pianist, following the Grand Duo D574 and the Fantasie in C for violin and piano D934.
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Frédéric Chopin
26th Apr 2010
Stephen Hough and Nelson Freire pay homage to the bicentenary of the Polish composer’s birth, and Warner Classics and Deutsche Grammophon issue extensive anniversary editions.
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Wagner Lohengrin - BBC Awards
19th Apr 2010
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Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
12th Apr 2010
Jos van Immerseel and the Flemish period-instrument orchestra Anima Eterna bring transparency and raw excitement to Berlioz’s ‘episodes in the life of an artist’ on Zigzag.
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia and Joyce DiDonato
5th Apr 2010
The American mezzo sings an astonishing Rosina from a wheelchair after breaking her ankle on the opening night of Covent Garden’s production, with Juan Diego Flórez as her suitor Count Almaviva and Pietro Spagnoli as the eponymous Spanish barber.
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Romantic Piano Concertos
29th Mar 2010
Hyperion’s venerable series reaches its fiftieth volume and enters more familiar territory with Stephen Hough joining the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä for the Tchaikovsky concertos.
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Robin Ticciati and Brahms' Choral Works
22nd Mar 2010
The 27-year-old conductor brings a wonderful Brahmsian glow to the Alto Rhapsody (with Alice Coote as soloist), Nänie, Gesang der Parzen and the Schicksalslied with the Bamberger Symphoniker and Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
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Mozart Symphonies from Mackerras - Volume 2
15th Mar 2010
The much-anticipated second volume of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Mozart series with their conductor laureate features joyous and life-enhancing accounts of Nos. 29, 31, 32, 35 and 46.
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Bernard Coutaz and Harmonia Mundi
8th Mar 2010
