DVD 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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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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Music - A Journey for Life - Riccardo Chailly
A Portrait by Paul Smaczny
Lars Vogt (piano), Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
As a snapshot... it makes for fascinating, often charming viewing, and it gives a valuable insight into both Chailly’s approach to what he conducts – he loves rehearsing, but always keeps something... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, DVD of the Month
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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, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Riccardo Chailly - Concert, Opera, Documentary
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Orquesta de La Comunitat Valenciana, Nikolaj Znaider, Riccardo Chailly, Lars Vogt (piano), Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (violin), Gal James (soprano), Aquiles Machado, Carmen Romeu, Massimo Cavalletti, Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana & Orquestra...
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Performances & Documentaries
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Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
China National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra & Chorus, Lü Jia
Principals and conductor have all had international experience…all find qualities in their roles that even the most practised of Figaro habitués will enjoy encountering – the Figaro, the roly-poly,... —
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C P E Bach: The 1786 Charity Concert - A Revival
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (alto), Lothar Odinius (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (bass)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann
Rademann captures the elusive aesthetic of music from the years between the Baroque and Classical styles...The camera work is nicely paced, sometimes musically sensitive, sometimes catching... —
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Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart & Beethoven
Christine Schäfer (soprano), Juliane Banse (soprano), Bruno Ganz (narrator)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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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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300th Anniversary of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
First Recording of Rediscovered Cantatas
Klaus Mertens (bass), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Georg Poplutz (tenor) & Gerhild Romberger (alto)
L'Arpa Festante München & Bachchor Mainz, Ralf Otto
The Mainz Bach Choir is in every sense a full participant and the instrumentalists of L'Arpa Festante acquit themselves with distinction. The soloists are evenly matched...The collective sense... —
