DVD Video, Tchaikovsky (composer)
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Igor Stravinsky/Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Mavra/Iolanta
RecommendedMirjam Mesak (Iolanta), Long Long (Vaudémont), Boris Prýgl (Robert), Markus Suihkonen (King René), Oğulcan Yilmaz (Ibn-Hakia); Anna El-Khashem (Parasha), Freddie de Tommaso (Vassili), Noa Beinart (Mother/Marta)
Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Axel Ranisch,...
[Mesak] makes an entirely convincing Iolanta, poised between innocence and experience, and singing with blazing conviction opposite Long Long’s lyrically ardent Vaudémont. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent (Mesak & Ioffe)
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Misha Didyk, Alexey Markov, Vladimir Stoyanov, Svetlana Aksenova, Larissa Diadkova
Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
It’s certainly wacky. But it’s followed through with rigorous brilliance…musically all is superb; this is the equal of Mariss Jansons’s first-rate Bavarian CD recording, with some of the same... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Opera Choice
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2018, Winner - Jahrespreis
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71
RecommendedAnthony Dowell & Lesley Collier
Royal Ballet & Royal Opera House, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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New,
Tchaikovsky: The Enchantress Asmik Grigorian (Nastasya (Kuma)), Iain MacNeil (Prince Nikita), Claudia Mahnke (Princess Yevpraksiya), Alexander Mikhailov (Prince Yuri), Frederic Jost (Mamïrov/Kudma), Zanda Švēde (Nenila)
Frankfurter Opern- und Museumorchester, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, F Valentin Uryupin, Vasily Barkhatov
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
RecommendedMariusz Kwiecien (Onegin), Anna Netrebko (Tatyana), Piotr Beczala (Lensky), Oksana Volkova (Olga), Alexei Tanovitski (Gremin)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Deborah Warner (director)
Netrebko convincingly projects the teenage Tatiana's inwardness and sensitivity...Beczala, bookish and intense as Lensky, is deeply moving during the humiliating party scene and duel...Gergiev's... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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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 Iolanta... — 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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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Megan Fairchild, Joaquin De Luz, Teresa Reichlen, Daniel Ulbricht
New York City Ballet Orchestra & New York City Ballet
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Misha Didyk (Hermann), Emily Magee (Lisa), Lado Ataneli (Count Tomsky), Ludovic Tézier (Prince Yeletsky), Elena Zaremba (Polina), Ewa Podles (Countess), Mikhaïl Vekua (Chaplitsky), Francisco Vas (Chekalinsky) & Claudia Schneider (Masha)
Symphony Orchestra and chorus of the Gran Teatre del...
[Didyk] cuts a fine figure on stage: tall, blond, physically agile, he sings the role of the poor lunatic gambler well. His voice is laser-like in focus and has the familiar Slavic edge...Ataneli's... — More…
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Offer,
Prom At The Palace The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace 2002
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Julian Bliss (clarinet), Ashley Wass (piano), Roberto Bolle (Prince Siegfried), Zenaida Yanowsky (Odile), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Adventist Chorale, Band of Her Majesty s Royal...