Arthaus Musik
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Rossini: Der Graf Ory
Martin Häusler (Count Ory). Stina-Britta Melander (Countess Marianne). Doris Herbert (Isolier), Ernst Krukowski (Robert), Fritz Hoppe (Tutor). Margarete Klose (Apolonia). Ruth Hesse (Ragonde), Helga Wisniewska (Alice)
Orchester und Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Günther-Arndt-Chor, Hans Hilsdorf
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Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe
Gwyneth Jones (Hanna Glawari), René Kollo (Danilo), Siegfried Jerusalem (Camille), Lucy Peacock (Valencienne)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Caspar Richter, August Everding
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Mariss Jansons conducts Beethoven & Strauss
Live from The Philharmonie Im Gasteig, Munich, 2011
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
[Uchida's] firmness and clarity of articulation [are] ideal, every phrase beautifully shaped as well as placed carefully within the larger context of each movement as a whole...Jansons is inclined,... —
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Mariss Jansons conducts Brahms & Janacek
Live Recording from The KKL Concert Hall, Lucerne, 2012
Tatiana Monogarova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano), Ludovit Ludha (tenor) & Peter Mikuláš (bass)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, with Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
The Brahms Symphony in Jansons's hands is certainly an idyll, darker passages come and go without disturbing the orchestra's mellifluous warmth or Jansons's exquisite phrasings...Could more... —
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Wagner: Siegfried
Johnny Van Hall (Siegfried), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Tomas Möwes (Der Wanderer), Mario Hoff (Alberich), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Heiki Porsten (Forest Bird), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St. Clair, Michael Schulz (director)
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Stéphane Degout (Il Conte), Eleonora Buratto (Contessa), Christiane Karg (Susanna), Alex Esposito (Figaro), Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino), Katharine Goeldner (Marcellina), Umberto Chiummo (Bartolo), Krystian Adam (Basilio), Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
Bolton is observant in conveying the detail of the score, drawing clean, clear textures from the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra...Bösch’s production is more of a mixed quantity...Figaro is a... —
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New Years Impressions from Vienna – Piano works by Mozart and Liszt
Sophie Pacini, Martha Argerich (piano)
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Bacchetti tends not to go in for blockbuster virtuoso repertoire, and the Liszt selection is tuneful and played with restrained expression, leading up Louis Diémer’s lovely Nocturne Op.15. Diémer... —
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Klaus Huber At Work
Klaus Huber, Katharina Rikus, Walter Grimmer, Max Engel, Hugo Noth, Michael Pattmann
