Accentus Music
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The concert’s torso makes sense on its own terms – a pair of late and tragic symphonies – and so do the cultivated polish of the Gewandhaus players and the fluent phrase-making of their maestro.... —
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A Concert for New York
In Remembrance and Renewal - The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) & Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert has the right sense of momentum and expectation —
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A Tribute to Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Urbański, Anne-Sophie Mutter & Daniel Müller-Schott
Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Krzysztof Urbaski
[the Threnody's] extremes of timbre and texture still leave a fearsome impression - not least in a reading as unsparing as that which Krzysztof Urbanski here obtains from the Warsaw Philharmonic... —
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'I think our aim should be to have more and more access to the enjoyment of life', says John Cage in this lucid and eminently watchable DVD which is packed with people and history and some wonderful... —
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Stefan Kahle (alto), Wolfram Lattke (tenor), Martin Lattke (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Gotthold Schwarz (bass)
St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, St. Thomas Cantor Georg Christoph Biller
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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... —
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Special offer. Puccini: La Bohème
Gal James (Mimì), Aquiles Machado (Rodolfo), Carmen Romeu (Musetta), Massimo Cavalletti (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (Colline), Mattia Olivieri (Schaunard) & Matteo Peirone (Benoît)
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana & Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Riccardo Chailly
Chailly works musical miracles in the pit, but up stage, apart from Israeli soprano Gal James's tenderly phrased Mimi, the singing is coarse —
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Verdi: Requiem
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano). Veronica Simeoni (mezzo-soprano), Francesco Meli (tenor), Georg Zeppenfeld (bass)
Ballett Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich, Chor und Zusatzchor der Oper Zürich, Fabio Luisi, Christian Spuck (choreographer)
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