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Special offer. Bellini: La Sonnambula
Giovanni Battista Parodi (Rodolfo), Julie Mellor (Teresa), Jessica Pratt (Amina), Shalva Mukeria (Elvino)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice, Gabriele Ferro
Bepi Morassi's production...takes the piece with a pinch of irony, but arguably no more than intended by its creators...Pratt's blonde bombshell of an Amina shows good range of technical skills... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Mozart: Don Giovanni
Kyle Ketelsen (Don Giovanni), Philippe Sly (Leporello),Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Donna Anna), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Don Ottavio), Kate Lindsey (Donna Elvira), Patricia Nolz (Zerlina), Peter Kellner (Masetto), Ain Anger (Commendatore)
Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan, Barrie Kosky
Don Giovanni is a remarkably charismatic figure, of course, but here Kosky digs into just why he has this strange hold over all the other characters. Kyle Ketelsen's Dionysian Don is an unstoppable... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte ('The Magic Flute')
Matthias Goerne (Sarastro), Mauro Peter (Tamino), Albina Shagimuratova (Königin der Nacht), Christiane Karg (Pamina), Adam Plachetka (Papageno), Maria Nazarova (Papagena), Michael Porter (Monostatos), Tareq Nazmi (Sprecher)
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Constantinos Carydis,...
Steier offers brilliant and convincing solutions to the perennial problems of Die Zauberflöte. —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, Opera Choice
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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Special offer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
Samuel Ramey (bass), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (soprano), Gösta Winbergh (tenor), Julia Varady (soprano), Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass), Kathleen Battle (soprano), Wiener Staatsoper (opera company), Michael Hampe (staging), Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
Diana Damrau (Konstanze), Olga Peretyatko (Blonde), Christoph Strehl (Belmonte), Norbert Ernst (Pedrillo), Franz-Josef Selig/Christoph Quest (Bassa Selim)
Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu, Ivor Bolton
in this Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail everything is germane to the text that Mozart set, and Loy makes work of depth and strong emotion from what can seem like an overlong comedy...every singer... —
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Salzburg 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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Karajan and Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Herbert von Karajan
an electrifying performance by a rejuvenated Berlin Philharmonic at the peak of its powers; it is also a visually stunning record of a masterclass in virtuoso conducting...[The bonus-feature]... —
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a man who plays Beethoven with the innocent self-assurance of the virtuoso...He is happiest when his hands are full: in the finales, for instance, where the forthrightness and his technical... —
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