DVD Video, Shostakovich (composer)
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Berliner Philharmoniker: Yutaka Sado
Recorded live from the Philharmonie, Berlin, May, 20th 2011
Raphael Haeger, Simon Rössler, Franz Schindlbeck, Jan Schlichte & Wieland Welzel (percussion)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Yutaka Sado
[Sado] digs unostentatiously deep in both the fluid and monumental aspects of this concert, given to raise funds for the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster. Much in the two chosen works... — More…
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Baiba Skride (violin)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
This Fifth might even be caricatured as vaguely retro...The Leipzig team works hard to invigorate old-school expressive intentions with precise, sometimes glorious playing...The concerto may... — More…
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Shostakovich: The Nose
Eduard Akimov (Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov), Alexander Lomonosov (The Nose), Valery Belykh (Ivan Yakovlevich, a barber), Nina Sasulova (Praskovia Osipovna, the barber's wife), Boris Tarkhov (Local Policeman), Boris Druzhinin (Ivan, Kovalyov's footman), Ashot Sarkisov (Doctor)
Soloists, Chorus and...
Rozhdestvensky leads a production in which the irreverent, slapstick-esque elements of the score are brought to the fore. — More…
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The four excellent leads provide much-needed focus until a final dream-ballet divertissement, hailed by lurid Bolshoi trumpeters, culminates in a riot of PVC Red Army costumes and scooters.... — More…
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27 CDs + 3 DVD Videos
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44 CDs + 2 DVD Videos
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Andris Nelsons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Lucerne Festival, 4th September 2011
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
It's an oddly balanced programme, but Nelson's passionate engagement and facial expressiveness in every facet, always balanced by his discipline with or without a baton, hold the spell...the... — More…
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David Oistrakh Vol. 1
David Oistrakh (violin), Frida Bauer (piano), arr. David Oistrakh
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin