Blu-Ray Video, Accentus Music (label)
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This disc is of sublime music, gloriously played, and it is one of those occasions when it seems superfluous to say much more…What Sunwook Kim brings to [the last three sonatas], as he also... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Martha Argerich (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo (Count Almaviva), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess Almaviva), Anna Prohaska (Susanna), Lauri Vasar (Figaro) & Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino)
Staatsoper Berlin, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) & Jürgen Flimm & Bettina Hartmann (stage directors)
The brouhaha is entertaining in its way, but the essential distinction between the classes is pretty well ignored…The film direction by Hannes Rossacher is good, a particularly moving instance... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Video Performance
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Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart & Beethoven
Juliane Banse (soprano), Bruno Ganz (narrator), Christine Schäfer (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Special offer. Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Joyce DiDonato (Romeo), Olga Kulchynska (Giulietta), Benjamin Bernheim (Tebaldo), Roberto Lorenzi (Lorenzo), Alexei Botnarciuc (Capellio), Gieorgij Puchalski (The companion)
Philharmonia Zürich & Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Christof Loy (stage director)
Zurich’s Opera’s cast and conductor jump on board with admirable commitment. Fabio Luisi boldly sculpts the cantabile phrases without getting bogged down, and the orchestral playing is evocative,... —
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The Mumbai Concerts
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Denis Matsuev (piano), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Mehta is ageing in fine style: the control and precision of his conducting remain phenomenal, yet there is none of the sports car gear-changing which, in earlier vintages, he often seemed unable... —
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Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven
Mihoko Fujimura (alto)
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
A theme of mortality lends the concert a chilling frisson, but Abbado’s strength of ideas and his ability to communicate them with such focus are the overriding qualities as you watch him in... —
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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
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 & Triple Concerto
Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (violoncello) & Martin Helmchen (piano)
Gewandhausorchester, Herbert Blomstedt
