DVD Video, C Major (label)
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New. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Lisette Oropesa (Lucia), Juan Diego Flórez (Edgardo), Boris Pinkhasovich (Enrico), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Arturo), Michele Pertusi (Raimondo Bidebent), Teatro Alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly, Yannis Kokkos
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New. Mozart: Così fan tutte
Federica Lombardi (Fiordiligi), Emily D’Angelo (Dorabella), Filipe Manu (Ferrando), Peter Kellner (Guglielmo), Kate Lindsey (Despina), Christopher Maltman (Don Alfonso), Orchester und Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan, Barrie Kosky
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Special offer. Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto
Pene Pati (Mitridate), Ana Maria Labin (Aspasia), Angela Brower (Sifare), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Farnace), Sarah Aristidou (Ismene)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Satoshi Miyagi, Marc Minkowski
Vocal virtuosity, which is crucial in such a piece, is best exemplified in the title-role by rising star tenor Pene Pati, who is up to every possible demand...Alert, lively playing from period-instrument... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Coming soon. Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Lisette Oropesa (Maria), Kate Lindsey (Elisabetta), Bekhzod Davronov (Leicester), Aleksei Kulagin (Talbot), Thomas Lehman (Cecil), Nino Gotoshia (Anna), Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Antonello Manacorda, Ulrich Rasche
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Special offer. Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta), Fiorenza Cedolins (Maria Stuarda), Jose Bros (Leicester), Mirco Palazzi (Talbot), Pervin Chakar (Anna), Marco Caria (Cecil)
Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice, Fabrizo Maria Carminati
Maestro Carminati looks an amiable, gentle soul as he enters the pit but he unleashes a firestorm of tension and passion in the big duets and his judicious tempi bind Donizetti's not-so-easy... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Haydn: Il mondo della luna
Dietrich Henschel (Buonafede), Vivica Genaux (Ernesto), Bernard Richter (Ecclitico), Christina Landshamer (Clarice), Maite Beaumont (Lisetta), Markus Schafer (Cecco)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) & Tobias Moretti (director)
With the ever-responsive Concentus Musicus, [Harnoncourt] duly mines the comically disruptive potential of Haydn's music with unabashed glee... The comic leads are ideally cast...an inventive,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Mauro Peter (Belmonte), Lenneke Ruiten (Konstanze), Sabine Devieilhe (Blonde), Maximilian Schmitt (Pedrillo), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin), Chorus of Teatro alla Scala & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Zubin Mehta, Giorgio Strehler
Strehler/Testi handles the balance between the comic and the serious astutely…Ruiten’s superb performance – touchingly acted, fluently sung – makes you both believe and care…Devieilhe soars... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
RecommendedPeter Serkin (piano), Yo-Yo Ma (cello & director), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano), James Taylor (vocals & guitar)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Pops Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, David Zinman, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons,...
If this all sounds rather eclectic, well, yes it is – but it all hangs together beautifully as a celebration of the festival’s diversity and joie de vivre. The performance styles, too, come... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2013
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André Previn: A Bridge Between Two Worlds
A documentary about Grammy Lifetime Award Winner 2010 André Previn
André Previn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, Mia Farrow & Lukas Previn
Engaging, offbeat and ultimately rather slight, this idiosyncratic Anglo-Germanic documentary will delight admirers of a man who bestrides so many worlds that it is difficult to know which two... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - DVD Documentary
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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: Grand Opening Concert
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, 11.01.2017
Philippe Jaroussky, Sir Bryn Terfel, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Ensemble Praetorius, NDR Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Thomas Hengelbrock
There are plenty of musical highlights – oboist Kalev Kuljus’s exquisite ‘Pan’, from Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid; a lithe, light-textured finale from Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony;... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, DVD of the Month
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