Accentus Music
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
Denis Matsuev (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
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Arvo Pärt: Adam's Passion; The Lost Paradise
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tõnu Kaljuste, Robert Wilson, Michalis Theophanous, Lucinda Childs
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Midori plays with balletic grace and intense concentration…There is something profoundly moving about hearing Bach in the very spaces in which [Bach] would have played these works, and one cannot... —
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The Philharmonics
Waltzes By Johann Strauss. Aarranged by Schoenberg, Berg & Webern
The Philharmonics
the DVD itself is a colourful evocation of old Vienna that admirably demonstrates the power of DVD to add positively to what one merely hears on CD...The five Strauss waltzes are proficiently... —
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The Mumbai Concerts
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Denis Matsuev (piano), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Mehta is ageing in fine style: the control and precision of his conducting remain phenomenal, yet there is none of the sports car gear-changing which, in earlier vintages, he often seemed unable... —
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Special offer. Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Joyce DiDonato (Romeo), Olga Kulchynska (Giulietta), Benjamin Bernheim (Tebaldo), Roberto Lorenzi (Lorenzo), Alexei Botnarciuc (Capellio), Gieorgij Puchalski (The companion)
Philharmonia Zürich & Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Christof Loy (stage director)
Zurich’s Opera’s cast and conductor jump on board with admirable commitment. Fabio Luisi boldly sculpts the cantabile phrases without getting bogged down, and the orchestral playing is evocative,... —
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Pärt: Adam's Passion
Michalis Theophanous, Lucinda Childs
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste
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Claudio Abbado conducts Prokofiev, Berg & Tchaikovsky
Lucerne Festival at Easter 2010
Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Claudio Abbado
It's amazing the way Abbado brings the melodic writing to the fore in the very different worlds of the Prokofiev and the Berg Lulu Suite, crowned by Anna Prohaska's meaningful characterisation...As... —
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Special offer. Zhu Shaoyu: You and Me
A Peking Opera
Meng Guanglu, Shi Yihong & Li Mingyan
Beijing Opera House Orchestra, Zhu Shaoyu
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the Berlin Staatskapelle rises to the challenge magnificently. Quite simply the playing is awesome, not just in terms of its technical excellence, but also in the great subtlety of nuance and... —
