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Orff: Carmina Burana
Lucia Popp (soprano), John van Kesteren (tenor), Hermann Prey (baritone)
Munich Radio Orchestra & Bavarian Radio Choir, Kurt Eichhorn
an imaginative staging... The main background set is a ruined church, against which the singers are seen in medieval costume, with action, sometimes surreal, invented to illustrate each section... — More…
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Morricone conducts Morricone
Susanna Rigacci (soprano), Gilda Buttà (piano) & Ulrich Herkenhoff (panpipes)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ennio Morricone
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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: Grand Opening Concert Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, 11.01.2017
Philippe Jaroussky, Sir Bryn Terfel, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Ensemble Praetorius, NDR Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Thomas Hengelbrock
There are plenty of musical highlights – oboist Kalev Kuljus’s exquisite ‘Pan’, from Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid; a lithe, light-textured finale from Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony;... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, DVD of the Month
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232 Christina Landshamer (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor) & Andreas Wolf (bass-baritone)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Concerto Köln, Peter Dijkstra
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 Maximilian Schmitt (Evangelist), Tareq Nazmi (Christ), Christina Landshamer (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Tilman Lichdi (tenor), Krešimir Stražanac (bass-baritone / Pilate), Simona Brüninghaus (Maid), Andreas Burkhart (Petrus) & Moon Yung Oh / Andreas Hirtreiter (Servant)
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Schmitt’s Evangelist is a knowing, centred and sage creation, sung with a conviction underlined by emotional subtlety and ringing clarity of diction. A touch understated for some, perhaps, Tareq... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tolzer Knabenchor, Riccardo Chailly
As you would expect from a handpicked band, the orchestral playing is consistently glorious. The contribution of the combined choirs is authoritative and there is a fine team of soloists, in... — More…
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Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 Rachel Harnisch (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzosoprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor) & Christian Immler (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Peter Dijkstra
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Mariss Jansons conducts Mahler Symphony No. 2
Anja Harteros (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (alto)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra), Mariss Jansons
I hadn't taken on board quite how expressive a master Jansons can be: the face and above all the eyes change in an instant through absorption in the Resurrection's drama...These are superlative... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' & B A Zimmermann: Nobody knows de trouble I see
Ekaterina Gubanova (contralto), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Andris Nelsons
[Zimmerman] The idiom is bluesy and jazzy, with an electric organ warbling in the background alongside a piano and reduced jazz-band forces. The star trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger is no square... — More…
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The UNESCO Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Erin Wall (soprano), Annika Schlicht (mezzo-soprano), Attilio Glaser (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Members of the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, World Orchestra for Peace & Würth Philharmoniker, Donald Runnicles
Appeals for peace and unity in Europe may ring hollow soon enough but the performance itself bears repetition, unfailingly lucid and rhythmically sprung in the Toscanini mould…The sound-mixing... — More…
