Arthaus Musik
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Emily Magee (Primadonna/Ariadne), Michelle Breedt (Der Komponist), Roberto Saccà (Der Tenor/Bacchus), Elena Mosuc (Zerbinetta), Michael Volle (Ein Musiklehrer); Zurich Opera House, Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor) & Claus Guth (stage director)
Casting is first rate, with the Zerbinetta of Elena Mosuc stealing the limelight with an account of her big aria which prompts an ovation. Emily Magee's Ariadne is hardly less fine, ranging... —
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Richard Decker, Marek Wojciechowski, Iordanka Derilova, Ulf Paulsen, Kostadin Arguirov, Alexandra Petersamer, Jörg Brückner & Nico Wouterse
Dessau Philharmonic, Golo Berg (conductor) & Johannes Felsenstein (director)
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Shchedrin: The Seagull – Die Möwe
Maya Plisetskaya & Alexander Bogatyrev
Ballet and Orchestra of The Bolshoi Theatre, Alexander Lazarev
…I found myself surprisingly moved and involved. Plisetskaya has found a credible choreographic idiom closer to expressive mime than full-blown classical ballet, and though her astonishingly... —
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Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg (The Dwarf)
Live Recording from The Los Angeles Opera, 2008
James Johnson (Adam), Bonaventura Bottone (Licht) & Steven Humes (Walter), Rodrick Dixon (The Dwarf), Mary Dunleavy (Donna Clara) & Susan B. Anthony (Ghita)
Los Angeles Opera, James Conlon (conductor) & Darko Tresnjak (director)
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The straightforward documentary footage, including interviews and rehearsal and concert sequences, is spiced with staged, scripted vignettes of life in the choir, impressively authentic-looking... —
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Music of the Italian Baroque
Giovanni Antonini (flute), Enrico Onofri, Marco Bianchi (violins), Paolo Beschi (violoncello), Luca Pianca (lute) & Luca Guglielmi (harpsichord)
Il Giardino Armonico
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The Story of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps
A Film by Peter Rump
Valery Gergiev, Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez & Alexander Toradze
Utterly absorbing; not to be missed. —
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Wagner vs. Verdi
A Documentary in 6 Parts
featuring Hans Neuenfels, Christian Thielemann, Rolando Villazón, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, Gottfried Wagner
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Friedrich Gulda: Chopin and Beyond …
Live Recording from the Münchner Klaviersommer 1986
Friedrich Gulda (piano) featuring Limpe Fuchs
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