Unitel Editions
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Rosa Feola (soprano), Alisa Kolosova (contralto), Dmitry Korchak (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass-baritone), Wiener Staatsoper (opera company)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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The most impactful performances here are of ponderous slow movements... Especially the Appassionata’s second movement...has a conceptual thoroughness and candour that is risk-taking, teetering... — More…
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Bernard Haitink Farewell
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 & Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Emanuel Ax (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Beethoven: Fidelio
Nicole Chevalier (Leonore), Eric Cutler (Florestan), Gabor Bretz (Don Pizarro), Christof Fischesser (Rocco), Melissa Petit (Marzelline), Benjamin Hulett (Jaquino), Karoly Szemeredy (Don Fernando), Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Manfred Honeck, Christoph Waltz (director)
Manfred Honeck and Christoph Waltz show nothing but absolute faith in the dramaturgical success of the results...All the leads look and sound the part...Nicole Chevalier and Eric Cutler both... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Beethoven: Fidelio
Nicole Chevalier (Leonore), Eric Cutler (Florestan), Gabor Bretz (Don Pizarro), Christof Fischesser (Rocco), Melissa Petit (Marzelline), Benjamin Hulett (Jaquino), Karoly Szemeredy (Don Fernando), Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Manfred Honeck, Christoph Waltz (director)
Manfred Honeck and Christoph Waltz show nothing but absolute faith in the dramaturgical success of the results...All the leads look and sound the part...Nicole Chevalier and Eric Cutler both... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Rosa Feola (soprano), Alisa Kolosova (contralto), Dmitry Korchak (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass-baritone), Wiener Staatsoper (opera company)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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Bernard Haitink Farewell
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 & Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Emanuel Ax (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink
Rather than invoking a sacred-Wagnerian source for this music in the manner of Barenboim or Thielemann, his broader tempos, allied to some striking rhetorical cadences and the Vienna Philharmonic’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Schubert: Unfinished Symphony
Martha Argerich (piano), West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
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Mozart: Don Giovanni (DVD)
The Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cycle
Andrè Schuen (Don Giovanni), Ruben Drole, Christine Schäfer (Donna Anna), Mauro Peter (Don Ottavio), Maite Beaumont (Donna Elvira), Mari Eriksmoen (Zerlina)
Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
this is a Mozart with a difference: rather than interpreting, singers and orchestra confront text and music with a liveliness and intensity that should also compel viewers to see things differently. — More…
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Handel/Mozart: Der Messias
Elena Tsallagova (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (mezzo-soprano), Richard Croft (tenor), José Coca Loza (bass), Alexis Fousekis, Philharmonia Chor Wien, Les Musiciens Du Louvre, Mark Minkowski, Robert Wilson
On the plus side, Wilson shows a definite response to the music.Yet there’s always a tendency for whatever work he stages to become an accompaniment to a fussy and (in terms of significance)... — More…
