Special offer. Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Ann Murray (Octavian), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Marschallin), Kurt Moll (Baron Ochs), Alan Opie (Herr von Faninal), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Marianne Leitmetzerin), John Dobson (Major-domo to the Marschallin), Gordon Sandison (Notary), Paul Crook (Valzacchi) & Leah-Marian Jones...
Moll is a genuinely basso profundo Ochs, with the repartee between him and 'cousin' Resi in Act 1 a highlight...[Murray] blends touchingly with Bonney, and sets the Act II quarrel alight.
Special offer. Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Ann Murray (Octavian), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Marschallin), Kurt Moll (Baron Ochs), Alan Opie (Herr von Faninal), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Marianne Leitmetzerin), John Dobson (Major-domo to the Marschallin), Gordon Sandison (Notary), Paul Crook (Valzacchi) & Leah-Marian Jones...
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Moll is a genuinely basso profundo Ochs, with the repartee between him and 'cousin' Resi in Act 1 a highlight...[Murray] blends touchingly with Bonney, and sets the Act II quarrel alight.
About
Richard Strauss’s most popular opera mixes comedy and philosophy with farce and romance. Exceptional singing from Anna Tomowa-Sintow (The Marschallin) is perfectly complemented by Kurt Moll’s Baron Ochs, Ann Murray’s Octavian and Barbara Bonney’s Sophie, with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Andrew Davis.
Packaged in an attractive clam-shell box with full libretto online.
“Andrew Davis has firm control of the score, its textures iridescent, the momentum sustained with a grace and urgency exactly suited to the psychological turmoil afflicting the protagonists. Don’t miss the new cast at any cost.” Opera
“The John Schlesinger production of Der Rosenkavalier may have been around for more than a decade, but it continues to ravish the eye.” The Times
Artists
Ann Murray (Octavian), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Marschallin), Kurt Moll (Baron Ochs), Alan Opie (Herr von Faninal), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Marianne Leitmetzerin), John Dobson (Major-domo to the Marschallin), Gordon Sandison (Notary), Paul Crook (Valzacchi) & Leah-Marian Jones (Annina)
The Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Andrew Davis
Contents and tracklist
- Ann Murray, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Kurt Moll, Alan Opie, Barbara Bonney, Jennifer Rhys-Davies, John Dobson, Gordon Sandison, Paul Crook, Leah Marian Jones, Bonaventura Bottone, Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Gard, Ann Murray, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Kurt Moll, Alan Opie, Barbara Bonney, Jennifer Rhys-Davies, John Dobson, Gordon Sandison, Paul Crook, Leah Marian Jones, Bonaventura Bottone
- Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden
- Sir Andrew Davis
- Ann Murray, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Kurt Moll, Alan Opie, Barbara Bonney, Jennifer Rhys-Davies, John Dobson, Gordon Sandison, Paul Crook, Leah Marian Jones, Bonaventura Bottone, Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Gard, Ann Murray, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Kurt Moll, Alan Opie, Barbara Bonney, Jennifer Rhys-Davies, John Dobson, Gordon Sandison, Paul Crook, Leah Marian Jones, Bonaventura Bottone
- Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden
- Sir Andrew Davis
- Ann Murray, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Kurt Moll, Alan Opie, Barbara Bonney, Jennifer Rhys-Davies, John Dobson, Gordon Sandison, Paul Crook, Leah Marian Jones, Bonaventura Bottone, Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Gard, Ann Murray, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Kurt Moll, Alan Opie, Barbara Bonney, Jennifer Rhys-Davies, John Dobson, Gordon Sandison, Paul Crook, Leah Marian Jones, Bonaventura Bottone
- Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden
- Sir Andrew Davis
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2010
Moll is a genuinely basso profundo Ochs, with the repartee between him and 'cousin' Resi in Act 1 a highlight...[Murray] blends touchingly with Bonney, and sets the Act II quarrel alight.
January 2011
All the principals were established as specialists in their roles by the time of this live recording from 1995, and you can hear why: there's an impressive confidence of delivery in the more conversational scenes
January 2011
All three characters are splendidly drawn here, Octavian (a winning Ann Murray, not too feminine), Baron Ochs (Kurt Moll) with a rich low register to all but dignify his underlying boorishness, and Anna Tomowa-Sintow a commandingly sympathetic, mature and worldly-wise Marschallin...in the great trio of the third act the three voices meld ravishingly.
14th November 2010
Tomova-Sintow is more moving than for Karajan — heart-stoppingly beautiful in the treacherous “Silver Rose” phrase at the end of Act I...With Ann Murray’s ardent, much-loved Octavian (new to CD), Barbara Bonney’s rapturously phrased Sophie and mercurial conducting from Davis, this Rosenkavalier was well worth rescuing from the archives.
