Browse: Bel Air Classiques (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label Bel Air Classiques.
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 Bo Skovhus (Don Giovanni), Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello), David Bizic (Masetto), Colin Balzer (Don Ottavio), Kristine Opolais (Donna Elvira), Kerstin Avemo (Zerlina) & Anatoli Kotscherga (Il Commandatore)
English Voices & Freiburger Barockorchester, Louis Langrée
Tcherniakov's reading gives depth to a drama too often tripped up by creaking period theatrical conceits...Skovhus is electrifying in the lead role as he pivots from roaring malevolence to whispered... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, DVD Choice
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Berg: Wozzeck Georg Nigl (Wozzeck), Mardi Byers (Marie), Maxim Paster (Captain), Pyotr Migunov (Doctor) & Roman Muravitsky (Drum-major)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre, Teodor Currentzis
there's little doubt that much credit for this significant revival must be given to Teodor Currentzis, whsoe committed conducting inspires the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra to deliver an urgent account... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, DVD of the Month
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Cherubini: Medea Nadja Michael (Medea), Kurt Streit (Jason), Christianne Stotijn (Néris), Vincent Le Texier (Creon), Hendricke Van Kerckhova (Dirce)
Les Talens Lyriques & Les Choeurs de la Monnai, Christophe Rousset
[the dialogue] was created by director Krzysztof Warlikowski and dramaturg Christian Longchamp, and designed for an in-your-face contemporary staging. That the result is at times shocking is... — More…
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Opera, June 2013, Recording of the Month
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Rimsky Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or Pavlo Hunka, Alexey Dolgov, Konstantin Shushakov, Alexander Vassiliev, Agnes Zwierko, Alexander Kravets, Venera Gimadieva, Sheva Tehoval, Sarah Demarthe
Orchestre Symphonique et Chœurs de la Monnaie, Alain Altinoglu, Laurent Pelly
It’s musically superb…And it’s still extremely funny, thanks not least to British-Ukrainian bass Pavlo Hunka…Appropriately stunning, though, is the Queen Venera Gimadieva…who has exactly the... — More…
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Opera, June 2018, Recording of the Month
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Kurt Weill: Street Scene Patricia Racette (Anna Maurrant), Paulo Szot (Frank Maurrant), Mary Bevan (Rose Maurrant), Jeni Bern (Greta Fiorentino), Lucy Schaufer (Emma Jones), Joel Prieto (Sam Kaplan), Michael J. Scott (Lippo Fiorentino), Tyler Clarke (Daniel Buchanan), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (Jennie Hildebrand), Eric Greene...
The two gossiping nursemaids who open the final scene come close to stealing the show. They are ably portrayed by Sarah-Marie Maxwell and Laurel Dougall... The conductor Tim Murray...allows the... — More…
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 Bo Skovhus (Don Giovanni), Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello), David Bizic (Masetto), Colin Balzer (Don Ottavio), Kristine Opolais (Donna Elvira), Kerstin Avemo (Zerlina) & Anatoli Kotscherga (Il Commandatore)
English Voices & Freiburger Barockorchester, Louis Langrée
Tcherniakov's reading gives depth to a drama too often tripped up by creaking period theatrical conceits...Skovhus is electrifying in the lead role as he pivots from roaring malevolence to whispered... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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Kurt Weill: Street Scene Patricia Racette (Anna Maurrant), Paulo Szot (Frank Maurrant), Mary Bevan (Rose Maurrant), Jeni Bern (Greta Fiorentino), Lucy Schaufer (Emma Jones), Joel Prieto (Sam Kaplan), Michael J. Scott (Lippo Fiorentino), Tyler Clarke (Daniel Buchanan), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (Jennie Hildebrand), Eric Greene...
An excellent cast and illuminating production make the strongest case possible for Weill’s powerful score. — More…
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nomianted - Complete Opera Recording
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Weill, K: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny Sung in English
Jane Henschel (Leocadia Begbick), Donald Kaasch (Fatty the Bookkeeper), Willard White (Trinity Moses), Measha Brueggergosman (Jenny Smith), Michael König (Jim Maclntyre)
Orquesta y Coro del Teatro Real, Pablo Heras-Casado
Brueggergosman's Jenny is stunning to behold...[Henschel] has precisely the right dramatic-mezzo instrument for this role, and she can sing sensuously when required...[Easterlin] offers tone... — More…
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Opera, December 2011, Recording of the Month
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The Art of David Hallberg At The Bolshoi Svetlana Zakharova, David Hallberg, Maria Allash, Alexey Bogorad
