DVD Video, Prague Philharmonic Choir (choir)
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Life with Czech Music - Janacek & Martinu
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova (contralto), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Richard Novak (bass), Jan Hora (organ), Kvetoslava Nemeckova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Vaclav Zitek (baritone), Josef Ruzicka (piano), Jan Bouse (timpani), Eva Urbanova (soprano), Bernarda Fink...
Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Choral
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Special offer. Faccio: Hamlet
Pavel Cernoch (Amleto), Claudio Sgura (Claudio), Iulia Maria Dan (Ofelia), Eduard Tsanga (Polonio), Dshamilja Kaiser (Gertrude), Sebastien Soules (Orazio), Paul Schweinester (Laerte), Bartosz Urbanowicz (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (The ghost/A priest)
Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker,...
Tambosi’s production in the Bregenz Festspielhaus is simple but effective. Černoch’s tortured Hamlet – dressed in plain black, emphasising his detachment from court life – acts and sings terrifically,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, DVD/Bluray of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Découverte
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Special offer. Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani
Saimir Pirgu (Ernani), Guanqun Yu (Elvira), Franco Vassallo (Don Carlo), Goran Jurić (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva), Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Lotte de Beer, Enrique Mazzola
Singing is what makes any Ernani recording or video, and conductor Enrique Mazzola lays a taut, solid foundation with a Verdian sensibility to the often expansive phrasing...Guanqun Yu (Elvira)... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena Tsallagova (Micaëla)
Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani
Holten says he’s keen to steer clear of the Spanish clichés on the one hand, and to examine Carmen as a real person on the other…It’s no earth-shattering insight but it does form the basis for... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Umberto Giordano: Siberia
Ambur Braid, Clarry Bartha, Alexander Mikhailov, Scott Hendricks, Fredrika Brillembourg, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Valentin Uryupin
Playing and choral singing are superb. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Bregenzer Festspiele
Vladimir Stoyanov (Rigoletto), Mélissa Petit (Gilda), Stephen Costello (The Duke), Miklós Sebestyén (Sparafucile), Katrin Wundsam (Maddalena), Wiener Symphoniker, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Bregenz Festival Chorus, Enrique Mazzola, Philipp Stölzl
The stage set is breathtaking…I can guarantee that you will ever have witnessed as surreal a ‘La donna è mobile’ (Gilda should have run a mile), nor a wet a storm scene. All this carnivalesque... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Arrigo Boito: Nerone
Rafael Rojas (Nerone), Lucio Gallo (Simon Mago), Brett Polegato (Fanuel), Svetlana Aksenova (Asteria), Alessandra Volpe (Rubria), Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Olivier Tambosi (staging), Dirk Kaftan
with punchy, dramatic playing from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Dirk Kaftan, the work is allowed to cast a strange, dark spell that is ultimately difficult to resist. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Special offer. Weber: Der Freischütz
Mauro Peter (tenor), Nikola Hillebrand, Christof Fischesser, Katharina Ruckgaber (soprano), Moritz von Treuenfels, Bregenzer Festspielchor, Philipp Stölzl, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Enrique Mazzola
The Austrian director has sought creatively to bring the work to life for a modern audience, not just through theatrical wizardry – and there’s plenty of that, given Bregenz’s unprecedented... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Special offer. Goldschmidt: Beatrice Cenci
Christoph Pohl, Gal James, Dshamilja Kaiser, Christina Bock
Prague Philharmonic Choir Wiener Symphoniker, Johannes Debus
Christoph Pohl has an athletic frame, and his fast, slick movements make the character of the Count all the more maniacal and menacing. His voice is a little light, but Goldschmidt’s clear orchestration... —
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Opera, October 2019, Disc of the Month
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Weinberg: The Passenger, Op. 97
Michelle Breedt (Lisa), Roberto Sacca (Walter), Elena Kelessidi (Martha), Artur Rucinski (Tadeusz), Svetlana Doneva (Katja), Liuba Sokolova (Bronka), Angelica Voje (Krzystina)
Wiener Symphoniker, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Teodor Currentzis
[This] production had the knife-edge atmosphere of a major rediscovery, and it features strong performances from most of the principals and from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Teodor Currentzis... —
