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Janáček: From the House of the Dead
Olaf Bär, Eric Stocklossa, Stefan Margita, Heinz Zednik & John Mark Ainsley
Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Presently the only DVD version of Janácek's last opera, and it's a good one - even if it doesn't match the Scottish Opera/Welsh National staging many will remember. — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2008, DVD of the Month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2008
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedDas Rheingold
Donald McIntyre (Wotan), Heinz Zednik (Loge), Hermann Becht (Alberich), Hanna Schwarz (Fricka), Matti Salminen (Fasolt), Fritz Hübner (Fafner), Carmen Reppel (Freia), Martin Egel (Donner), Siegfried Jerusalem (Froh), Helmut Pampuch (Mime), Ortrun Wenkel (Erda),...
Chéreau's Marxist-tinged, Industrial Revolution-set production was by no means greeted with universal enthusiasm when it made its debut at the 1976 Bayreuth Festival...By the time the production... — More…
Awards:
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Building a Library, February 2008, DVD Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Grammy Awards, 25th Awards (1982), Best Opera Recording
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Pierre Boulez - A Life for Music
A documentary by Reiner E. Moritz
London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
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Salzburg Festival Opening Concert 2011
Anna Prohaska (soprano), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto) & Johan Botha (tenor)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus State Opera Vienna, Pierre Boulez
a beautifully shaded performance [of the Mahler] by Boulez and a superb cast — More…
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Daniel Barenboim plays Liszt Piano Concertos
On the Occasion of Franz Liszt's 200th Birthday
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Pierre Boulez
Barenboim's approach to both concertos deals in the monumental rather than in quicksilver Romantic scintillation. The Second Concerto's broader idiom duly comes off best, with moments of impressive... — More…
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Salzburg Opening Concert 2008 with Boulez & Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Boulez paints the often delicate colours of Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales with subtlety, the Vienna Philharmonic's woodwind showing their finesse. — More…
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Pierre Boulez conducts Mahler
Magdalena Kožená & Christian Gerhaher
The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Magdalena Kozena is an engaging performer; a sensitive one too, who tellingly alters her expressive demeanour...while Christian Gerhaher is rather more formal in his approach, they're a nicely... — More…
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Salzburg Festival Concerts
Wiener Philharmoniker, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, National Children´s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle
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Mahler: Complete Symphonies (1-10), Totenfeier & Das Lied von der Erde
All full HD live recordings taken from the 2009-2011 Mahler celebration at Amsterdam Concertgebouw
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Miah Persson (soprano), Christine Brewer (soprano), Camilla Nylund (soprano), Maria Espada (soprano), Stephanie Blythe (mezzo), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Tommi Hakala (baritone),...
All these performances bear the stamp of the man on the podium...but the set's most positive and absorbing quality is its paradoxical focus on the orchestra, and in this composer above all, who... — More…
