Blu-Ray Video, C Major (label)
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Prokofiev: The Gambler, Op. 24
Misha Didyk (Alexei), Kristine Opolais (Polina), Vladimir Ognovenko (General), Stefania Toczyska (Babulenka), Stephan Rügamer (The Marquis), Sylvia de la Muela (Blanche), Viktor Rud (Mr Astley)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Dmitri Tcherniakov (stage director)
Barenboim's crystal-clear pacing of the score is hard-hitting rather than quicksilvery, but the payoff in the last Act is terrific, and the blue-lit look of it all - Tcherniakov designed it,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, DVD of the Month
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Opera, July 2010, Recording of the Month
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Strauss, R: Arabella
Renée Fleming (Arabella), Thomas Hampson (Mandryka), Gabriela Beňačková (Adelaide), Albert Dohmen (Waldner), Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Zdenka), Daniel Behle (Matteo), Derek Welton (Dominik), Benjamin Bruns (Elemer), Daniela Fally (Fiakermilli)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Fleming's is a nuanced characterisation, with the right Straussian bloom save for the Act II duet. I just don't believe that this is a young girl grown up fast in the face of feckless parents...Show-stealers... — More…
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Janácek: Jenufa
Camilla Nylund (Jenůfa), Evelyn Herlitzius (Kostelnička), Stuart Skelton (Laca), Ladislav Elgr (Števa), Hanna Schwarz (Grandmother Buryjovka) Jan Martiník (Stárek)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle, Damiano Michieletto
Rattle secures playing of imposing lyrical sweep and power from the Staatskapelle. The conductor provides the foundations for a superb musical performance all round, the power of which is ably... — More…
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Bregenz Festival: Opera on the Lake Stage
Aida; Andrea Chénier; Die Zauberflöte; Turandot; Carmen
Tatiana Serjan (Aida), Rubens Pelizzari (Radames), Iain Paterson (Amonasro), Iano Tamar (Amneris), Kevin Short (Re), Tigran Martirossian (Ramfis), Ronald Samm (Messaggero), Elisabetta Martorana (Sacerdotessa), Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena...
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a terrific memento of a marvellous concert...The performance of the New World...is out of the top drawer, with the same outstanding qualities as their audio recording....Nelsons makes the Symphony... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Blu-ray of the Month
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Umberto Giordano: Siberia
Ambur Braid, Clarry Bartha, Alexander Mikhailov, Scott Hendricks, Fredrika Brillembourg, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Valentin Uryupin
Playing and choral singing are superb. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Yuja comes alive, it seems, only when she is on stage playing the piano, as is vividly demonstrated by the documentary and the complete performances of Rhapsody in Blue and the Ravel G major... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Krassimira Stoyanova (Marschallin), Sophie Koch (Octavian), Mojca Erdmann (Sophie), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Annina), Günther Groissböck (Ochs), Adrian Eröd (Faninal), Kresimir Spicer (Valzacchi), Stefan Pop (Italian Singer)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst
Hooray for director Harry Kupfer!...[he] knows that Rosenkavalier is a supreme exercise in nostalgia...This is also Freud's Vienna. Stoyanova's Marschallin is a scrupulous analyst of her own... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Opera Choice
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Simon Rattle et al. conducts at the El Sistema At Salzburg Festival
National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela & White Hands Choir Venezuela, Simon Rattle, Maybeth Garcia & Luis Chinchill
The players attack [Ginastera's] life-affirming score with unalloyed confidence and joy...The sight and sound of these youngsters playing this great music [the Mahler] with such complete commitment... — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Blu-ray
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Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Yusif Eyvazov (Andrea Chénier), Anna Netrebko (Maddalena de Coigny), Luca Salsi (Carlo Gérard), Annalisa Stroppa (Bersi), Mariana Pentcheva (La comtesse de Coigny)
Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly, Mario Martone
Netrebko’s Maddalena offers a blend of conviction and artifice. She’s distinguished in terms of her endless supply of lovely tone and her shaping of individual phrases, and on that level, rather... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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