DVD Video, Accentus Music (label)
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the Leipzig players do [Chailly] proud. There are so many stunning solos, from tenor horn at the start to the first trumpet who never splits brilliant top notes in the finale, that names should... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Video Performance
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Special offer. Berg: Wozzeck
RecommendedChristian Gerhaher (Wozzeck), Brandon Jovanovich (Drum Major), Mauro Peter (Andres), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Captain), Lars Woldt (Doctor) & Gun-Brit Barkmin (Marie)
Chor der Oper Zurich & Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Andreas Homoki (stage director)
While the Lieder-like beauty of Gerhaher’s singing Is matchless – he can act too – this is no star vehicle. It is ensemble work of the highest order…the relationships are brilliantly drawn,... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, DVD/Blu-ray Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Opera
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Video Performance
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Special offer. Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Christian Gerhaher (Simon Boccanegra), Jennifer Rowley (Amelia Boccanegra), Christof Fischesser (Jacopo Fiesco), Otar Jorjikia (Gabriele Adorno), Nicholas Brownlee (Paolo Albiani), Brent Michael Smith (Pietro)
Philharmonia Zurich, Chor der Oper Zürich, Fabio Luisi, Andreas Homoki
Though not on the face of it an obvious Verdian, Christian Gerhaher gives a winning performance as the eponymous Doge, bringing all the nuance to the text that we would expect from a master... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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This live performance of Bruckner’s last symphony filmed in the basilica of St Florian provides a memorable epilogue to last year’s bicentenary celebrations, noble and life-affirming...Taken... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2025, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Video (Performance and Documentaries)
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This captures much of the peerless tone-colour, shape, drive and above all those hushed dynamics of [the] performance, awarded what feels like an infinite silence at the end...Abbado's pacing... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, DVD Award Winner
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This performance curtails the silences in the interests of the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado’s linear approach...This is Bruckner sunny side up, lending a molto espressivo bloom to the string... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - DVD Performance
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This sequence of almost mini-documentaries, beautifully paced, shows different sides of his character, musicianship and history…The cameras follow him to Moscow where he studied with David Oistrakh,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Video Documentary
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, Documentary Choice
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Special offer. Massenet: Werther
Juan Diego Flórez (Werther), Anna Stéphany (Charlotte), Mélissa Petit (Sophie), Audun Iversen (Albert), Cheyne Davidson (Le Bailli), Martin Zysset (Schmidt)
Philharmonia Zürich, Chor der Oper Zürich, Kinderchor der Oper Zürich, Cornelius Meister, Tatjana Gurbaca (dir).
Director Tatjana Gürbaca and designer Klaus Grünberg have transformed Massenet’s masterpiece into a compelling drama that glues you to the edge of your seat from start to finish…Flórez gives... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Opera Choice
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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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Special offer. Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns
Piotr Beczala (Prince Sou-Chong), Julia Kleiter (Lisa), Rebeca Olvera (Mi), Spencer Lang (Count Gustav von Pottenstein), Cheyne Davidson (Tschang) & Martin Zysset (Chief Eunuch)
Chor der Oper Zurich & Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Andreas Homoki (stage director)
This is a magnificent achievement: a staging that lets the piece speak eloquently for itself, performed with a sense of style that’s faithful without being patronising…Kleiter’s singing has... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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