Unitel Editions
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Handel: Saul
Florian Boesch (Saul), Jake Arditti (David), Anna Prohaska (Merab), Giulia Semenzato (Michal), Rupert Charlesworth (Jonathan), Rafał Tomkiewicz (Witch of Endor), Andrew Morstein (Amalekite)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Christopher Moulds, Claus Guth
Whether lashing out in fortissimo melismas or whispering in pure-tone pianissimo, Boesch probes totalising extremes. Other principals match Boesch’s top quality, particularly Arditti, whose... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Bejun Mehta (Cesare), Louise Alder (Cleopatra), Jake Arditti (Sesto), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Simon Bailey (Achilla)
Concentus musicus Wien, Ivor Bolton, Keith Warner
It’s a sound conception, executed with clever conceits – costume-changes prominent among them – and lively stage business that stops short of distracting from the emotional dramas which are... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Special offer. Verdi: Macbeth
Asmik Grigorian (Lady Macbeth), Vladislav Sulimsky (Macbeth), Tareq Nazmi (Banquo), Jonathan Tetelman (Macduff), Evan LeRoy Johnson (Malcolm), Caterina Piva (Dama)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Philippe Jordan, Krzysztof Warlikowski
The weird, at times ghoulish, production by director Krzysztof Warlikowski…fails to draw the viewer in...Nevertheless, this is a DVD that scores highly in terms of musical performance, with... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Special offer. Stanisław Moniuszko: Halka
Corinne Winters (soprano), Tomasz Konieczny (bass-baritone), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Alexey Tikhomirov, Natalia Kawałek, Łukasz Jakobski, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester
Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Lukas Borowicz, Mariusz Treliński
by the time we reach the grand ensembles Łukasz Borowicz’s conducting has all guns blazing, his orchestra putting over the music’s defining dance rhythms with lightness and point, if not ideal... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Special offer. Stanisław Moniuszko: Halka
Corinne Winters (Halka), Tomasz Konieczny (Janusz), Piotr Beczala (Jontek), Alexey Tikhomirov (Stolnik), Natalia Kawałek (Zofia), Łukasz Jakobski (Dziemba)
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Łukasz Borowicz, Mariusz Treliński
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Michael Volle (baritone), Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Singverein, Christian Thielemann
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Performance & Documentaries
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Bernard Haitink Farewell
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 & Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Emanuel Ax (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink
Rather than invoking a sacred-Wagnerian source for this music in the manner of Barenboim or Thielemann, his broader tempos, allied to some striking rhetorical cadences and the Vienna Philharmonic’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Puccini: Tosca
Kristine Opolais (Tosca), Jonathan Tetelman (Cavaradossi), Gábor Bretz (Scarpia), Rafał Pawnuk (Sacristan/Sciarrone), ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Marc Albrecht, Martin Kušej
This is not the finest Tosca you will ever hear, nor the most opulent one you’ll ever see … but it’s possibly the one you’ll most remember. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Benjamin Bernheim (Hoffmann), Kathryn Lewek (Stella/Olympia/Antonia/Giulietta), Christian van Horn (Lindorf/Coppélius/Dr Miracle/Dapertutto), Kate Lindsey (Muse/Nicklausse)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Marc Minkowski, Mariame Clément
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