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Salzburg Festival Opening Concert 2010
Daniel Barenboim (piano), Dorothea Roschmann (soprano), Elīna Garanča (mezzo), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus State Opera Vienna
there is no doubting the powerful authority that characterizes Barenboim's direction of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto from the keyboard. Perhaps rather unexpectedly, the magic really starts... —
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Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – The Salzburg Concerts
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
captures the sense of music-making on the wing...rarely has the final coda erupted with such overwhelming joy. The same electrifying concentration informs performances of Schoenberg's Variations... —
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Kinshasa Symphony
The awarded film about a symphony orchestra in the Congo
Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste, Armand Diangienda
it's the 'Ode to Joy' that drives the film forward as singers and musicians sweat to master Beethoven's great clamour. Beyond that, we see the people's lives, their city and their country -... —
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Hermann Prey: The Schubert Song Cycles
Hermann Prey, Helmut Deutsch (piano) & Leonard Hokanson (piano)
Schwanengesang sees Prey summoning all his energy and focus for a performance of visionary insight and concentration. Helmut Deutsch takes over [from Hokanson] for Winterreise, and immediately... —
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Special offer. Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Dmitry Korchak, Andriana Chuchman, Lauren Snouffer; The Joffrey Ballet, Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra and Chorus; Harry Bicket
Korchak is no haute-contre but a robust, heroic tenor. Lauren Snouffer is suitably boyish as Amour...Andriana Chuchman makes a fiery Eurydice...The choreography executed by the Joffrey Ballet... —
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Marc Minkowski at Mozartwoche
Mozartwoche Salzburg, 2015
Francesco Corti (fortepiano), Thibault Noally (violin)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
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The performance is suffused with Goerne’s and Hinterhäuser’s peculiar rhetorical intensity and freedom —
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Special offer. Opern Gala: Highlights of the Opera
Opernhaus Bonn, 2016
Simone Kermes, Julia Novikova, Roberto De Biasio, Marina Prudenskaya, Ingeborg Gillebo, Davide Luciano, Chiara Skerath, Robin Johannsen
Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Opernchor des Theater Bonn, Stefan Blunier
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Special offer. Mozart: Lucio Silla, K135
Kresimir Spicer (Lucio Silla), Lenneke Ruiten (Giunia), Marianne Crebassa (Cecilio), Inga Kalna (Lucio Cinna), Giulia Semenzato (Celia)
Teatro alla Scala, Marc Minkowski
Here’s a director who makes no apology for the work…[Pynkoski] creates his own aesthetic of artful, flowing theatricality, which is underlined effectively by Antoine Fontaine’s designs…Špicer... —
