Summer Opera - up to 40% off selected titles
We're delighted to offer a more affordable way to begin or continue your opera journey, with up to 40% off selected titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, until 12th August. Please note, downloads are not included in this offer.
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Special offer. Dallapiccola: Il Prigioniero
Anna Maria Chiuri (La Madre), Michael Nagy (Il Prigioniero), Stephan Rugamer (Il Carceriere/Il Grande Inquisitore), Adam Riis (Primo Sacerdote), Steffen Bruun (Secondo Sacerdote), Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Noseda and his Danish forces offer a thrilling account of this masterpiece, its all-important orchestral detail meticulously realised… as the prisoner, Michael Nagy is alive to every nuance... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Recording of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Opera Choice
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Opera, September 2020, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Special offer. Nielsen: Aladdin Incidental Music, Op. 34 (FS89)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Choir, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
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Special offer. Nielsen: Maskarade
Gert Bastian (bass), Edith Brodersen (soprano), Ib Hansen (bass), Ove Verner Hansen (bass), Aage Haugland (bass), Tove Hyldgaard (soprano), Mogens Schmidt Johansen (baritone), Jørgen Klint (bass), Tonny Landy (tenor), Gurli Plesner (alto), Christian Sørensen (tenor)
Danish National Choir, Danish...
Frandsen's performance is distinguished by good - sometimes very good - singing and alert orchestral support. Above all, the sound is musical, the images are well located and firm —
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Special offer. Langgaard, R: Antikrist
Sten Byriel (bass), Anne Margrethe Dahl (soprano), Helene Gjerris (soprano), Poul Elming (tenor), Johnny van Hal (tenor), Jon Ketilsson (tenor), John Lundgren (baritone), Camilla Nylund (soprano) & Susanne Resmark (mezzo-soprano)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Choirs, Thomas Dausdaard
Langgaard’s Antikrist is fabulous – a genuine, undiscovered, eccentric masterpiece —
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Special offer. Schierbeck: Fête galante
Bo Skovhus, Dénise Beck, Michael Weinius, Andrea Pellegrini, Gert Henning-Jensen, Palle Knudsen & Mathias Hedegaard
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Michael Shønwandt
Inventive energy abounds, along with a smiling lyricism that shows more than skin-deep affinity with Nielsen. Reminders of Puccini and Strauss occasionally surface, but not so strongly as to... —
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Special offer. Langgaard, R: Antikrist
Sten Byriel (bass), Anne Margrethe Dah (soprano), Poul Elming (tenor) & Helene Gjerris (soprano)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Thomas Dausgaard
…the opera is not without its problems. Staffan Holm's solution is simple but effective, with a staging, set in the beautiful Ridehuset (Riding School) in Copenhagen, treating the opera as... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Zemlinsky: Es War Einmal (Once upon a time)
Eva Johansson (soprano), Aage Haugland, Ole Hedegaard, Guido Paevatalu, Kurt Westi, Per-Arne Wahlgren, Susse Lillesue, Christian Christiansen, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Radio Choir, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf
The conducting of Hans Graf is atmospheric, lyrical, and buoyant, and the various comprimario singers, chorus, and orchestra discharge their respective roles ably. The recorded sound is excellent.... —
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Special offer. Hartmann - The Key Masterpieces
Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano) & Poul Elming (tenor)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt
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Special offer. Langgaard, R: Antikrist
Sten Byriel (bass), Anne Margrethe Dahl (soprano), Poul Elming (tenor), John Lundgren (baritone), Camilla Nylund (soprano) & Susanne Resmark (mezzo-soprano)
Danish National Choir & Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
Langgaard’s Antikrist is fabulous – a genuine, undiscovered, eccentric masterpiece. —
