C Major
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Verdi & Wagner: The Odeonsplatz Concert
Roland Villazón (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Symphonieorchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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the sense of instrumental soloists and choirs listening and responding to one another is palpable, making the Adagio a genuinely live experience albeit still one suffused with the satisfaction... —
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the sense of instrumental soloists and choirs listening and responding to one another is palpable, making the Adagio a genuinely live experience albeit still one suffused with the satisfaction... —
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Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (HR-Sinfonie Orchester), Paavo Järvi
the Eighth is - as with all the other performances in the cycle - highly accomplished. Less so the filming...Overall the Seventh belongs with the other mid-period symphonies as the high point... —
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Special offer. Offenbach: La Belle Helène
Jennifer Larmore (Hélène), Jun-Sang Han (Pâris), Peter Galliard (Ménélas), Viktor Rud (Agamemnon), Rebecca Jo Loeb (Oreste), Dovlet Nurgeldiyev (Achille), Sergiu Saplacan (Ajax premier), Benjamin Popson (Ajax deuxième), Christian Miedl (Calchas), Anat Edri (Bacchis), Renate Spingler (Léoena), Gabriele...
In a dazzling array of costumes, flaunting an impressive decolletage, Jennifer Larmore submits joyfully to her transition from frustrated wife to seduced and abducted lover, blaming it all on... —
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Salzburg Festival Opening Concert 2009 with Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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The programme is both straightforwardly popular and plays to conductor Valery Gergiev's strengths. He and the orchestra whip up a fine storm in the opening of Rossini's William Tell Overture,... —
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UNIKO
All music written by Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen
Kimmo Pojohnen (accordion) & Samuli Kosminen (percussion and sampling)
Kronos Quartet
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Special offer. Wagner: Tannhäuser
Peter Seiffert (Tannhäuser), Petra Maria Schnitzer (Elisabeth), Béatrice Uria-Monzon (Venus), Günther Groissböck (Hermann), Markus Eiche (Wolfram)
Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu & Cor del Gran Teatre del Liceu, Sebastian Weigle
Peter Seiffert sings powerfully and expressively as Tannhauser, and Petra Maria a bit too powerfully as Elisabeth. The orchestra, under Sebastian Weigle, gives a strong account of the score —
