C Major
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Umberto Giordano: Siberia
Ambur Braid, Clarry Bartha, Alexander Mikhailov, Scott Hendricks, Fredrika Brillembourg, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Valentin Uryupin
Playing and choral singing are superb. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Ein Sommernachts Traum (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
A Ballet by John Neumeier
Hamburg Ballet (ballet company)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Love Songs By Schumann and Brahms
Diana Damrau (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Performance & Documentaries
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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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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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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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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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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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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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LA Phil 100
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Centennial Birthday Gala
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel
Plenty of the Phil’s strengths are on show, chief among them the rhythmic sophistication and clarity instilled during 17 seasons under Esa-Pekka Salonen and his diet of 20th-century music including... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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