C Major
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Pogorelich is at his idiosyncratic best...There are searing passages, but it is the poetry that shines through strongest. —
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Martin Summer (Sarastro), Yasmin Özkan (Queen of the Night), Martin Piskorski (Tamino), Fatma Said (Pamina), Till von Orlowski (Papageno), Sascha Emanuel Kramer (Monostatos), Theresa Zisser (Papagena); Teatro alla Scala, Ádám Fischer, Peter Stein
This is one of those performances which it is easy to criticise on many points, which yet overcomes its faults because it is overall so intensely alive and life-giving…Fischer, perhaps the leading... —
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Coriolan Overture & Jost: Fanfare & An die Hoffnung
Festive Concert on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Grafenegg Festival 2016
Camilla Nylund (soprano), Elena Zhidkova (mezzo-soprano), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Tonkunstler Orchestra & European Union Youth Orchestra, Wiener Singverein, Yutaka Sado
Under the Japanese Yutaka Sado, now their resident conductor, the orchestra plays extremely well…the last movement [of the Beethoven] takes off, to the evident pleasure of all concerned, and... —
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Flute Concertos at Sanssouci
A Tribute to Frederick the Great
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) & Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Kammerakademie Potsdam
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Alfred Reiter (Sarastro), Norman Reinhardt (Tamino), Ana Durlovski (Konigin der Nacht), Bernarda Bobro (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Denise Beck (Papagena)
Prague Philharmonic Choir & Wiener Symphoniker, Patrick Summers
For visual effectiveness this new DVD and Blu-ray has no competition among a rich field of Magic Flutes...Musically, too, it is never less than good, and the Tamino of Norman Reinhardt and the... —
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Hermann Prey: The Schubert Song Cycles
Hermann Prey (baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano) & Leonard Hokanson (piano)
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4-6
and Documentaries about each Symphony
Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
The performances, the Vienna Philharmonic on top form, can't help sounding wonderful...oddly, it is the discussions that are the most enjoyable elements in this ambitious set. —
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Salzburg Festival Opening Concert 2009 with Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Andris Nelsons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Yefim Bronfman at the Lucerne Festival, 5th September 2011
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
every gesture and expression dovetails with what we hear. Subtle yet soaring, these orchestral performances are shaped by a conductor who enjoys every second of his job, and equally enjoys the... —
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