Naxos
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Berlioz: Harold en Italie
Lisa Berthaud (viola) & Giovanni Radivo (violin)
Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin
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Special offer. Weber: Der Freischütz
Julia Kleiter (Agathe), Eva Liebau (Äennchen), Michael König (Max), Günther Groissböck (Kaspar), Michael Kraus (Ottokar), Frank van Hove (Kuno), Stephen Milling (Hermit), Till Von Orlowsky (Kilian)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Myung-Wha Chung, Matthias Hartmann
There are plenty of pyrotechnics here, and red demons writhing in the forest while Myung-Whun Chung fires up the La Scala orchestra…Groissböck is the star of the show, his muscular bass perfect... —
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CD
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Stefano Landi: La morte d'Orfeo
Cecilia Molinari (Teti/Nisa/Lincastro/Euridice), Renato Dolcini (Fato/Fileno), Alexander Miminoshvili (Ebro/Giove), Gaia Petrone (Aurora/Fosforo), Juan Francisco Gatell (Orfeo), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset, Pierre Audi
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Special offer. Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
1859 version by Hector Berlioz
Marianne Crebassa (Orphée), Hélène Guilmette (Eurydice), Lea Desandre (Amour)
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon. Aurélien Bory (director)
Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa is a magnificent Orphée. Her bright, lyric mezzo is a bit more authoritative in the middle to upper registers than the lower one. But she sings with admirable... —
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Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals
and works by Ravel, Prokofiev and Britten
Britten-Pears Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor/narrator)
[The Britten] is the best thing here – vivid, highly commendable playing from the youngsters in a performance that captures all the colour and exuberance of this deservedly popular score. Marin... —
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JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
András Schiff (piano)
This is a glorious supplement to Schiff’s studio version, embodying all the freshness of his ECM recording but with the added frission of a live event. The Blu-ray clarity is magnificent. —
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Happy the young musician with a filmmaker for a friend. At least if the film-maker is as talented – yet apparently blessed with spare time – as Martin Mirabel...This is the kind of honesty that... —
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Special offer. Weber: Euryanthe
Jacquelyn Wagner (soprano), Theresa Kronthaler (mezzo-soprano), Norman Reinhardt (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone), Stefan Cerny (bass), Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Constantin Trinks
It’s a classic example of the modern minimalist staging that Christof Loy has been perfecting over the years….this is the most approachable and effective Euryanthe yet in the current catalogues. —
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Vinyl Record
$31.50
