DVD Video, Arthaus Musik (label)
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
These DVDs of La Scala performances...are most notable for showcasing this conductor's supreme command of the epic lyricism that goes to the heart of the Wagner style...while Cassiers achieves... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Opera
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Poulenc: Le Voix Humaine & Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Barbara Hannigan (Elle), Ekaterina Gubanova (Judit), John Relyea (Bluebeard)
Paris Opera Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Krzysztof Warlikowski
A solid, uncontroversial staging of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle which works well – with two outstanding performers – bonded to a perverse one of Poulenc’s monodrama which does not. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Video Performance
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Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids
Sean Panikkar (Dionysus), Russell Braun (Pentheus), Willard White (Cadmus), Nikolai Schukoff (Tiresias/ Calliope), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Agave/Venus), Károly Szemerédy (Captain/Adonis), Vera-Lotte Böcker (Autonoe/Proserpine), Anna Maria Dur (Beroe), Rosalba Guerrero Torres (Bassarid - Dancer)
Wiener...
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Vidéo
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Sophia – Biography of a Violin Concerto
A Jan Schmidt-Garre Film
with Sofia Gubaidulina, Anne-Sophie Mutter & Gidon Kremer
Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle
it's the polarity of composer and performer that is the kernel of the film: Mutter cool, sveltely glamorous and severely practical, Gubaidulina looking more and more like a rumpled Babushka... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - DVD Documentary
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2011, DVD of the Month
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The Tchaikovsky Cycle Volume I
RecommendedAntonio Meneses (cello)
The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev
The young Tchaikovsky comes across here as an accomplished, often sober master rather than a spring-heeled individualist. Supreme cellist Meneses's more animated features grace the Rococo Variations. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
A Concert on the occasion of the XX World Youth Day
Bozena Harasimowicz, Monica Groop, Jerry Hadley & Franz-Josef Selig
London Philharmonic Choir & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Gilbert Levine
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José Carreras - A Bolshoi Opera Night
Famous Arias from Verdi, Donizetti, Rossini, Bellini, Puccini, Wagner, Flotow, Leoncavallo, Borodin & Mussorgsky
Lucia Aliberti, Alfredo Kraus, Hermann Prey, Carlo Bergonzi, Alan Titus, Irina Archipowa, Luisa Bosabalian, Alida Ferrarini, Ljubow Kazarnovskaya, Jewgenij Nesterenko & Rolando Panerai
The Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Mark Ermler
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Their musicianship is certainly refined: check out the suave phrasing lavished upon the famously naive melody in the third movement's trio. Yet there is robust lustre too...For all that Welser-Most... —
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Beethoven: Symphonies 4/5/6
Live from Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2012
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
