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Handel: Rodelinda
Danielle de Niese (Rodelinda), Bejun Mehta (Bertarido), Kurt Streit (Grimoaldo), Konstantin Wolff (Garibaldo), Malena Ernman (Eduige) & Matthias Rexroth (Unulfo)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
If the title-role heroine remains an enigma - half-Penelope, half-Medea - and is more kitten than tigress in Danielle de Niese's palely sung interpretation, Harnoncourt Jnr has done much to add... — More…
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Doderer’s writing is confident and fluent, generally traditional, and she keeps the story moving along. Soprano Andrea Carroll, making a name for herself in Vienna, is a plucky and true-toned... — More…
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Beethoven: Mass in C Major
Genia Kühmeier (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (contralto), Maximilian
Schmitt (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone), Martin Angerer (trumpet)
Symphonieorchester und des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Instrumental colours are bright, exact and assertive. Were there a slider for musical rather than picture contrast, it would be set at maximum…Beethoven insisted that they keynotes of his Mass... — More…
