Jochen Schmeckenbecher
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The new recording comes from concert performances at least year’s Salzburg Festival celebrating the composer’s centenary. It’s led with great gusto and accuracy by one of his leading pupils…The... —
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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Special offer. Wagner: Das Rheingold
Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Christian Elsner (Loge), Iris Vermillion (Fricka), Günther Groissböck (Fasolt), Timo Riihonen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Ricarda Merberth (Freia), Andreas Conrad (Mime), Maria Radner (Erda), Julia Borchert (Woglinde), Katharina Kammerloher (Wellgunde),...
This is superbly recorded, mainly wonderfully played , interestingly conducted and reasonably well sung...dramatically gripping as only a well-conducted Rheingold can be...The best reason for... —
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Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos
Johan Botha (Bacchus), Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta), Sophie Koch (Komponist)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
The set’s chief glory is arguably the playing of the musicians of the State Opera Orchestra: every solo line is exquisitely crafted and beautifully integrated, for which Thielemann must of course... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Peter Seiffert (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Janina Baechle (Brangäne), Stephen Milling (König Marke), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Kurwenal)
Wiener Staatsoper, Franz Welser-Möst
This new/old set is of absorbing interest for the conductor’s work with the score and the special strengths of his Isolde. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Schubert
RecommendedBerliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
As far as the symphonies are concerned, Harnoncourt maintains and even intensifies his quest for textual purity already established in his cycle withthe Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra...Yet the... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Special offer. Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Schubert - Alfonso und Estrella, D 732
Christian Gerhaher (soloist), Kurt Streit (soloist), Dorothea Röschmann (soloist), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (soloist), René Voßkühler (soloist), Isabelle Voßkühler (soloist), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (soloist), Christoph Leonhardt (soloist), Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Peter Marsh (Mime), Terje Stensvold (Der Wanderer), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Magnús Baldvinsson (Fafner), Meredith Arwady (Erda), Susan Bullock (Brunnhilde), Kateryna Kasper (Woodbird)
Frankfurter Opern und Museumsorchester, Sebastian Weigle
Weigle conducts superbly, bringing many original and fine ideas to this amazingly fresh score and building up great momentum over entire acts...[Bullock's] awakening is shrill and insecure,... —
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Haydn: Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2 (Live)
Jochen Schmeckenbecher (baritone), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Christina Landshamer (soprano)
RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Yutaka Sado
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Dessau: Hagadah Shel Pessach (Oratorio)
Sabine Ritterbusch
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg/North German Radio Chorus/Weber Men's Choir, Gerd Albrecht
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Heidi Elisabeth Meier, Roswitha Christina Müller, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, James Rutherford, David Jerusalem, Lukasz Konieczny, Katarzyna Kuncio, Sylvia Hamvasi, Thorsten Grümbel, Raymond Very, Bernhard Berchtold, Florian Simson, Ramona Zaharia, Duisburger Philharmoniker, Axel Kober
Kober and the Duisberg Philharmonic offer a somewhat pedestrian reading of the score…Yet there are good things. A young and firm Wotan from James Rutherford, who reminds us that this is a God... —
