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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Thomas Dausgaard conducts 4 Symphonies
These are four great symphonies that have all played a special role in the close collaboration between the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard. The symphonies are recorded in the beautiful Koncerthuset in Copenhagen. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra is specialized in Scandinavian repertoire. Bonus material: In a series of interviews, Thomas Dausgaard explains his close collaboration with the orchestra, the concerts and the four great yet altogether very different masterpieces by Brahms, Dvorak, Sibelius and Nielsen. Running Time Total: 168 minutes Picture 16:9, HD DVD: DTS 5.1, PCM Stereo Subtitles Bonus: English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Italian “Dausgaard himself is energetic, impassioned, easy to read and obviously intent on providing on providing as clear a musical picture as possible. He is also an excellent talker...But watching and listening confirms that, although he conducts from his heart, he has a strong intelligence guiding him. There aren't too many conductors around today who balance those crucial values as successfully as he does” Gramophone Magazine, September 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Neeme Jarvi: 70th Birthday Jubilee
Maarika Järvi - flute Estonian National Male Choir & Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi & Kritjan Järvi | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Newly discovered in the archives of Danish Television. The DVD also includes an interview with the great Maestro. Black & White, Mono, 37 minutes (plus 8-minute interview). Live performance from 1967 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Nielsen - Maskarade
| | Bonus material: Introductions to Maskarade,
Making of Maskarade | Nielsen: | Maskarade Sung in Danish |
Jeronimus (Stephen Milling), Magdelone (Susanne Resmark), Leander (Niels Jørgen Riis), Henrik (Johan Reuter), Arv (Ole Hedegaard), Leonard (Poul Elming), Leonora (Gisella Stille), Pernille (Hanne Fischer), En vægter (Sten Byriel), Maskarademester (Anders Jakobsson), En magister (Jakob Bloch Jespersen The Royal Danish Opera Choir, Kaare Hansen (choir master) & The Royal Danish Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt The premiere production was a decided audience success and a more or less unanimous press acknowledged the music as original. “The first act works excellently. After this one would swear that Carl Nielsen was born to write opéra comique. So smooth, so dexterous, such a quick turn of phrase, such aptness in the dialogue, with fine phrases and droll ideas; equally felicitous in the treatment of the text, the singing roles, the instruments of the orchestra. In the craft of music, it is a fully-fledged master who holds the pen; one’s thoughts can only resort to Verdi in ‘Falstaff’ to find a parallel.” Nationaltidende (1906) Stage directors: Kasper Bech Holten, Morgan Alling & DVD producers: Thorleif Hoppe, Niels Severin | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Recorded live at the Waldbühne, Berlin, 18 June 2006 “Another Berlin Philharmonic outdoor concert in the cast Waldbühne (Woodland Stage) amphitheatre… Centre of the programme is Rimsky's… Sheherazade. Järvi recorded a memorable version with the Royal Scottish NO, but this one's even finer… airily expansive and dramatic, the gorgeous orchestration translucent rather than cloying, and wonderfully played. Star guest... is the young violin virtuoso Janine Jansen, splendidly sensuous in the Thaïs meditation and dazzlingly spirited in the urbane Saint-Saëns.” BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2007 ***** “If one had to evoke the Dutch violinist Janine Jansen in a word, it would be energy.” The Times | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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“A finely paced account with plenty of breath and nobility, and no lack of fire, which can hold its own with the best.” (5 star BBC Music Magazine) “For this new DVD cycle, Schønwandt took orchestra and works back into the concert hall in November 2004, coming out with leaner, fitter accounts, well prepared and played with undeniable enthusiasm. The video direction is of fairly standard concert broadcasting type, mixing orchestral panoramas with interesting details. The direction hits the spot... in the finale of No 4, The Inextinguishable, where the camera angles along both sets of rampaging timpani, with the brass caught between as if in crossfire. The set is augmented by an extra disc with a useful documentary by composer Karl Aage Rasmussen setting the music in the context of Nielsen's turbulent personal life.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2006 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Kirch, Thompson, Brück & Missenhardt Vienna Symphony, Ulf Schirmer “This film of a performance of Nielsen’s comic opera from the Bregenz Festival is of startling
brilliance…This is the same production that appeared at the Royal Opera House last September, but
I enjoyed it a good deal more on DVD, because I could read subtitles and anyway it is sung in
German. The cast is of an extremely high calibre and Ulf Schirmer’s conducting of them and the
Vienna Symphony Orchestra is full of conviction. Everything on stage is gorgeous to look at…and the
same can be said of the production. This is David Pountney at his absolute peak…with such
resourcefulness and verve, this production certainly merits watching.”
Michael Tanner, International Record Review | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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