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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (DVD)
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Turiddu), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Santuzza), Ambrogio Maestri (Alfio), Annalisa Stroppa (Lola), Stefania Toczyska (Mamma Lucia), Jonas Kaufmann (Canio), Maria Agresta (Nedda), Dimitri Platanias (Tonio), Alessio Arduini (Silvio), Tansel Akzeybek (Beppe)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Sachsischer...
We have plenty of the thrilling, untrammelled and ringing sound that the tenor is capable of at his best...Happily, Kaufmann’s outstanding central performances are well matched, both musically... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th March 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 & Wolf: Lieder
Recorded live at Semperoper Dresden, September 2012
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Thielemann's interpretation of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony is majestic and clean, as expected, though it falls just short of the cumulative power that the audience's warm reception suggests.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, DVD of the Month
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Piotr Beczała (Lohengrin), Anna Netrebko (Elsa), Tomasz Konieczny (Friedrich von Telramund), Evelyn Herlitzius (Ortrud), Georg Zeppenfeld (Heinrich), Derek Welton (Der Heerrufer des Königs)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Beczała looks well, his basically lyrical tenor assumes adequate power and ring, but he never achieves the vital otherworldly aura of great Swan-Knights…Netrebko, no ingénue now, sings a passionate... — More…
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opera, November 2017, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, DVD
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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedPiotr Beczała (Lohengrin), Anja Harteros (Elsa), Waltraud Meier (Ortrud), Tomasz Konieczny (Friedrich), Georg Zeppenfeld (Heinrich)
Bayreuth Festspiele, Christian Thielemann, Yuval Sharon
Harteros as Elsa responds with singing of considerable lyric beauty, her tonal response generous and well matched to the music…Beczała’s Lohengrin provides glorious singing from start to finish... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
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Thielemann’s symphonic credentials pay dividends in the grander pieces, his overview lending a structural breadth to such familiar fare as The Blue Danube, which took on the trappings of a symphonic... — More…
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Wagner: Das Rheingold Michael Volle (Wotan), Rolando Villazón (Loge), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Claudia Mahnke (Fricka), Vida Miknevičiūtė (Freia), Mika Kares (Fasolt), Peter Rose (Fafner)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Christian Thielemann, Dmitri Tcherniakov
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Here, in performances of rare empathy and recreative skill, both [early] works emerge as harbingers of miracles yet to come. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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Renée Fleming and Christian Thielemann in Concert
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
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Thielemann keeps a firm grip on dynamic levels – ppp really means ppp – and the hushed playing is exquisitely rendered. The depth of sonority of horns, trombones and pizzicato double basses at... — More…