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Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos Sung in English: translation by Christopher Cowell
Christine Brewer (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Robert Dean Smith (Bacchus/The Tenor), Alice Coote (Composer), Gillian Keith (Zerbinetta), Stephen Fry (Major-Domo), Alan Opie (Music Master), John Graham-Hall (Dancing Master/Scaramuccio), Roderick Williams (Harlequin), Matthew Rose (Truffaldino), Wynne Evans...
Brewer's luscious Ariadne had to be captured on disc...There's another essential performance from Alice Coote...with unflinchingly full top notes that few other genuine mezzos possess...I've... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Opera Choice
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
RecommendedElisabeth Schwarzkopf, Rudolf Schock, Rita Streich, Karl Dönch, Irmgard Seefried, Hugues Cuenod
Philharmonia, Herbert von Karajan
Karajan's Ariadne is perfectly cast, magnificently performed, and very well recorded. The scoring, for a small orchestra, demands virtuoso playing from what, in effect, is a group of soloists;... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Laura Claycomb (Zerbinetta), Sergey Skorokhodov (Bacchus), Thomas Allen (Music Master), Kate Lindsey (Composer)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Katharina Thoma
Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, Opera Choice
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
RecommendedAnna Tomowa-Sintow (Ariadne), Agnes Baltsa (Der Komponist), Kathleen Battle (Zerbinetta), Gary Lakes (Bacchus), Hermann Prey (Musiklehrer), Urban Malmberg (Harlekin), Barbara Bonney (Najade), Helga Müller-Molinari (Dryade), Dawn Upshaw (Echo), Kurt Rydl (Truffaldin), Otto Schenk (Haushofmeister)
Wiener...
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Grammy Awards, 30th Awards (1987), Best Opera Recording
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Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos
Johan Botha (Bacchus), Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta), Sophie Koch (Komponist)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
The set’s chief glory is arguably the playing of the musicians of the State Opera Orchestra: every solo line is exquisitely crafted and beautifully integrated, for which Thielemann must of course... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
(complete opera)
Deborah Voigt, Natalie Dessay, Anne Sofie von Otter, Ben Heppner, Albert Dohmen
Staatskapelle Dresden, Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Gundula Janowitz (Ariadne), Agnes Baltsa (Komponist), James King (Bacchus), Edita Gruberova (Zerbinetta), Erich Kunz (Haushofmeister), Walter Berry (Musiklehrer), Barry McDaniel (Harlekin), Kurt Equiluz (Scaramuccio), Manfred Jungwirth (Truffaldin), Gerhard Unger (Brighella), Hilda de Groote (Najade),...
Agnes Baltsa is a pert, ultra-stylish Composer...Trusting in his fine male cast, Bohm (in what one may call 'late style') allows the Harlequin accompaniments to become very bar-room - apt, and... — More…
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Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Krassimira Stoyanova (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Sophie Koch (Komponist), Jessica Pratt (Zerbinetta), AJ Glueckert (Bacchus), Markus Werba (Ein Musiklehrer), Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Daniele Gatti
Gatti conducts the score with evident affection, his account unrushed and expansive, moving in the Opera’s overture and achieving a noble sense of grandeur in the final minutes. — More…
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos (original 1912 version) Ernst Theo Richter (Monsieur Jourdain), Veronica Cangemi (Singer), Doris Lamprecht (Shepherd/Dryad), Brigitte Fournier (Shepherdess/Naiad), Virginie Pochon (Echo), Margaret Price (Ariadne), Sumi Jo (Zerbinetta), Thomas Mohr (Harlequin), Markus Schafer (Brighella), Steven Cole (Scaramuccio), Alfred...
It is high time we had the chance to hear the artistic collaboration that Strauss and Hofmannsthal originally intended. For Strauss enthusiasts this excellent set is self-recommending. For those... — More…
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R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Op.60, TrV 228
Hermann Baier (bass-baritone), Hans Schweiger (bass), Josef Witt (tenor), Max Lorenz (tenor), Alda Noni (soprano), Maria Reining (soprano), Friedrich Jelinek (tenor), Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Paul Schöffler (bass), Alfred Muzzarelli (speaker), Melanie Frutschnigg (contralto), Elisabeth Rutgers...
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