Blu-Ray Video, C Major (label)
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta and The Nutcracker
Olesya Golovneva (Iolanta), Stefan Cerny (Rene), Georgy Vasiliev (Count Vaudemont), Andrei Bondarenko (Robert), Wiener Staatsballett, Orchester der Volksoper Wien, Lotte de Beer, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Omer Meir Wellber
Two important things you need to know: as this is the Volksoper, Iolanta is sung in German rather than Russian; and neither work is complete…de Beer does have something special to say about... — More…
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Schumann: The Complete Symphonies & Discovering Schumann
and Discovering Schumann - Christian Thielemann about Schumann's Symphonies
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
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Diapason d’Or, February 2020, Vidéo
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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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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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Schumann at Pier2: The Symphonies
A concert film by Christian Berger
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi
This is the sort of set that makes me grateful that classical recordings are still being made. As a refresher course in Schumann symphonies, you won't find anything better...I can't imagine... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: Grand Opening Concert Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, 11.01.2017
Philippe Jaroussky, Sir Bryn Terfel, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Ensemble Praetorius, NDR Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Thomas Hengelbrock
There are plenty of musical highlights – oboist Kalev Kuljus’s exquisite ‘Pan’, from Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid; a lithe, light-textured finale from Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony;... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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The physicality of Nelsons's conducting...is assuredly part of his attraction...Aside from Nelsons's gymnastics, the players' ease and palpable enjoyment regularly catch the cameras' eyes. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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LA Phil 100
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Centennial Birthday Gala
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel
Plenty of the Phil’s strengths are on show, chief among them the rhythmic sophistication and clarity instilled during 17 seasons under Esa-Pekka Salonen and his diet of 20th-century music including... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Liudmila Konovalova, Vladimir Shishov, Emilia Baranowicz, Davide Dato
Wiener Staatsballett, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Paul Connelly
