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Special offer. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Mauro Peter (Belmonte), Lenneke Ruiten (Konstanze), Sabine Devieilhe (Blonde), Maximilian Schmitt (Pedrillo), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin), Chorus of Teatro alla Scala & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Zubin Mehta, Giorgio Strehler
Strehler/Testi handles the balance between the comic and the serious astutely…Ruiten’s superb performance – touchingly acted, fluently sung – makes you both believe and care…Devieilhe soars... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Simon Rattle et al. conducts at the El Sistema At Salzburg Festival
National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela & White Hands Choir Venezuela, Simon Rattle, Maybeth Garcia & Luis Chinchill
The players attack [Ginastera's] life-affirming score with unalloyed confidence and joy...The sight and sound of these youngsters playing this great music [the Mahler] with such complete commitment... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Blu-ray
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Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
RecommendedPeter Serkin (piano), Yo-Yo Ma (cello & director), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano), James Taylor (vocals & guitar)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Pops Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, David Zinman, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons,...
If this all sounds rather eclectic, well, yes it is – but it all hangs together beautifully as a celebration of the festival’s diversity and joie de vivre. The performance styles, too, come... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2013
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Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven & Haydn
RecommendedJudith Blegen (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Claes H. Ahnsjö (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Leonard Bernstein
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Building A Library, October 2021, Recommendation with modern instruments
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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: Grand Opening Concert
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, 11.01.2017
Philippe Jaroussky, Sir Bryn Terfel, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Ensemble Praetorius, NDR Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Thomas Hengelbrock
There are plenty of musical highlights – oboist Kalev Kuljus’s exquisite ‘Pan’, from Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid; a lithe, light-textured finale from Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony;... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, DVD of the Month
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Marlis Petersen (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (contralto), Werner Güra (tenor) & Gerald Finley (bass)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
This is exceptional. There are certainly many different valid ways to perform the Missa solemnis, but it's hard to imagine they will surpass this outstanding version...The Royal Concertgebouw... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, DVD Choice
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Special offer. Weber: Der Freischütz
Mauro Peter (tenor), Nikola Hillebrand, Christof Fischesser, Katharina Ruckgaber (soprano), Moritz von Treuenfels, Bregenzer Festspielchor, Philipp Stölzl, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Enrique Mazzola
The Austrian director has sought creatively to bring the work to life for a modern audience, not just through theatrical wizardry – and there’s plenty of that, given Bregenz’s unprecedented... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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André Previn: A Bridge Between Two Worlds
A documentary about Grammy Lifetime Award Winner 2010 André Previn
André Previn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, Mia Farrow & Lukas Previn
Engaging, offbeat and ultimately rather slight, this idiosyncratic Anglo-Germanic documentary will delight admirers of a man who bestrides so many worlds that it is difficult to know which two... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - DVD Documentary
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Simon Rattle et al. conducts at the El Sistema At Salzburg Festival
National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela & White Hands Choir Venezuela, Simon Rattle, Maybeth Garcia & Luis Chinchill
The players attack [Ginastera's] life-affirming score with unalloyed confidence and joy...The sight and sound of these youngsters playing this great music [the Mahler] with such complete commitment... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - DVD
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Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven & Haydn
RecommendedJudith Blegen (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Claes H. Ahnsjö (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Leonard Bernstein
Beethoven's last quartet, expanded for full strings, sounds nicely urgent but unsuitably Romantic. Haydn's Mass is almost upstaged by its glorious setting, the Baroque basilica at Ottobeuren. —
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Building A Library, October 2021, Recommendation with modern instruments
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