Glyndebourne
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Eötvös: Love and Other Demons
Allison Bell (Sierva Maria), Nathan Gunn (Father Cayetano Delaura), Mats Almgren (Don Toribio, the bishop), Felicity Palmer (Josefa Miranda) & Jean Rigby (Martina Laborde)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Eötvös's fifth full-length opera is surprisingly lacking in heat. But the music is brilliantly luminous...a glittering score that is clear and precise, wonderfully moulded by Vladimir Jurowski... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Opera, January 2014, Recording of the Month
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Mirella Freni (Adina), Luigi Alva (Nemorino), Enzo Sordello (Belcore), Sesto Bruscantini (Dulcamara), Emily Maire (Giannetta)
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Carlo Felice Cillario
…this marvellous account from 1962, with Mirella Freni and Luigi Alva the ideal Adina and Nemorino. …everyone here is ideal, and their performances are so vivid that you feel you are seeing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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Opera, January 2010, Recording of the Month
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Anja Kampe (Leonore), Torsten Kerl (Florestan) Andrew Kennedy (Jaquino), Lisa Milne (Marzelline), Brindley Sherratt (Rocco), Peter Coleman-Wright (Don Pizarro), Henry Waddington (Don Fernando)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Mark Elder
Loud with ambient sound, and compelling in the unflagging energy of Mark Elder's conducting, this Fidelio has huge physical and dramatic presence. Anja Kampe's soprano is fearless and feisty…... —
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Opera, May 2009, Recording of the Month
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Prokofiev: Betrothal in a Monastery
Viascheslav Voynarovskiy (Don Jerome), Andrey Breus (Ferdinand), Lyubov Petrova (Louisa), Alexandra Durseneva (The Duenna), Vsevolod Grivnov (Don Antonio), Nino Surguladze (Clara)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski
As a record of an operatic ensemble taken to rare limits of perfection, and handsomely presented, it's a unique experience. —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, Opera Choice
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Britten: The Turn of the Screw
William Burden (Prologue/Peter Quint), Camilla Tilling (Governess), Joanna Songi (Flora), Christopher Sladdin (Miles), Anne-Marie Owens (Mrs Grose) & Emma Bell (Miss Jessel)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
The recording splendidly captures the breath and the pulse...conducted with a thrilling precision of rhythm, transparency of texture and horrifyingly inexorability of momentum by Edward Gardner.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, Opera Choice
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Britten: Peter Grimes
RecommendedAnthony Dean Griffey (Peter Grimes), Vivian Tierney (Ellen), Steven Page (Balstrode), Susan Gorton (Auntie), John Graham-Hall (Bob Boles), Stafford Dean (Swallow), Jard van Nes (Mrs Sedley), Christopher Maltman (Ned Keene)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Mark Wigglesworth
This is the greatest conducting and playing - LPO on top form - of Britten's first masterpiece that I've ever heard...Griffey, though he occasionally has the visionary beauty of the late, great... —
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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Verdi: Falstaff
Geraint Evans (Sir John Falstaff), Ilva Ligabue (Alice), Anna Maria Rota (Meg), Oralia Dominguez (Mistress Quickly), Sesto Bruscantini (Ford), Mariella Adani (Nannetta), Juan Oncina (Fenton) & Hugues Cuénod (Dr Caius)
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vittorio Gui
this is as fine a performance of Verdi's last opera as I have ever heard, thanks primarily to the conducting of the veteran Vittorio Gui...He brings a Rossinian lightness and elan to Falstaff,... —
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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bejun Mehta (Oberon), Íride Martínez (Tytania), Jack Morlen (Puck), Timothy Robinson (Lysander), Jared Holt (Demetrius), Tove Dahlberg (Hermia), Kate Royal (Helena) & Matthew Rose (Bottom)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Trinity Boys Choir, Ilan Volkov
this live [Dream]...will certainly transport even the most distracted listener over hill and over dale to the realm of the Fairy Queen....Mehta's Oberon is one of the main reasons for choosing... —
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Humperdinck: Hänsel & Gretel
Alice Coote (Hänsel), Lydia Teuscher (Gretel), Irmgard Vilsmaier (Mother), William Dazeley (Father), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Witch), Tara Erraught (Sandman) & Ida Falk Winland (Dew Fairy)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Robin Ticciati
The list of major conductors who have recorded Hansel und Gretel is impressive, but I think this is the finest musical account of all. Ticciati conducts on a grand scale, but with extraordinary... —
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Bizet: Carmen
Anne Sofie von Otter (Carmen), Marcus Haddock (Don José), Laurent Naouri (Escamillo), Lisa Milne (Micaëla), Jonathan Best (Zuniga)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Philippe Jordan
Jordan drives the opening Prelude to this Carmen like a Ferrari roaring out of pole position....The London Phiharmonic Orchestra play Bizet's score as if the ink were scarcely dry on the autograph... —
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