Arthaus Musik
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Rossini: Le Comte Ory
Yijie Shi (Le Comte Ory), María José Moreno (La Comtesse Adèle), Lorenzo Regazzo (Le Gouverneur), Laura Polverelli (Isolier), Roberto de Candia (Raimbaud), Natalia Gavrilan (Ragonde), Rinnat Moriah (Alice)
Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Paolo Carignani, Lluís Pasqual
The musical performance is at once satisfactory and maddening. Satisfactory in that all of the cast are able to negotiate with only occasional smudges Rossini’s very demanding writing; much... —
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Václav Neumann conducts Dvorak & Janacek
Live recording from the Smetana Hall, Prague, 1986
Czech Philharmonic, Václav Neumann
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Special offer. Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
Juliette Galstian (Iphigenie), Rodney Gilfrey (Oreste), Deon Van Der Walt (Pylades), Anton Scharinger (Thoas) & Martina Janková (Goddess Diana)
Orchestra « La Scintilla » of The Zurich Opera House (on historical instruments), William Christie (conductor) & Claus Guth (stage director)
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Britten: Owen Wingrave
Gerald Finley (Owen Wingrave), Peter Savidge (Spencer Coyle), Josephine Barstow (Miss Wingrave), Anne Dawson (Mrs Coyle), Elizabeth Gale (Mrs Julien), Charlotte Hellekant (Kate), Martyn Hill (Sir Philip Wingrave); Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano, Margaret Williams (dir.)
Finley and his top-drawer British actor/singer colleagues tread an impeccably drawn line beween emotion and excess. Nagano and his German players might have been a strange choice but they are... —
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Jirí Kylián‘s Car Men
Additional Ballets: Silent Cries & La Cathédrale engloutie
With Sabine Kupferberg, Gioconda Barbuto, David Krügel, Karel Hruška and others
Nederlands Dans Theater
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Special offer. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Fiorenza Cedolins (Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly)), Francesca Franci (Suzuki), Mina Blum (Kate Pinkerton), Marcello Giordani (Pinkerton), Juan Pons (Sharpless)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Daniel Oren (conductor) & Franco Zeffirelli (stage director)
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Friedrich Gulda: Mozart For The People
Live from the Amerikahaus in Munich, February 27 1981
Friedrich Gulda (piano)
This feels like a master’s purest thoughts on another master —
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Special offer. Rossini: Le Comte Ory
Yijie Shi (Le Comte Ory), María José Moreno (La Comtesse Adèle), Lorenzo Regazzo (Le Gouverneur), Laura Polverelli (Isolier), Roberto de Candia (Raimbaud), Natalia Gavrilan (Ragonde), Rinnat Moriah (Alice)
Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Paolo Carignani (conductor) & Lluís...
The musical performance is at once satisfactory and maddening. Satisfactory in that all of the cast are able to negotiate with only occasional smudges Rossini’s very demanding writing; much... —
