DVD Video, Schoenberg (composer)
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Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21
Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Barbara Sukowa (Sprechgesang), Marina Piccinini (flute), Anthony McGill (clarinet), Mark Steinberg (violin), Clemens Hagen (cello)
this new [recording] is clearly the work of someone who has thought about the peice for a long time. Her voice is ethereal, otherworldly, haunted. We feel the air from another planet. Anthony... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2015, DVD of the Month
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Burkhard Fritz (Waldemar), Emily Magee (Tove), Anna Larsson (Waldtaube), Markus Marquard (Bauer), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Klaus-Narr), Sunnyi Melles (Narrator)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Dutch National Opera, Marc Albrecht (conductor) & Pierre Audi (director)
The whole production presents a formidable challenge to any opera house contemplating an alternative staging. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Leaving Home - Orchestral Music in the 20th Century
A Conducted Tour by Sir Simon Rattle. Volume 1 - Dancing on a Volcano
Soloists including: Felicity Palmer, Gidon Kremer
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
The series was one of the last intelligent contributions to classical music by British television and, even by 1996, one suspects that only a musician of Rattle's stature and determination could... — More…
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Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – The Salzburg Concerts
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
captures the sense of music-making on the wing...rarely has the final coda erupted with such overwhelming joy. The same electrifying concentration informs performances of Schoenberg's Variations... — More…
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Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven
Mihoko Fujimura (alto)
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
This programme...was Claudio Abbado's final filmed recording. It shows him as fragile as he always was during his final years, and economical with gestures, but as wholly in command as ever...It's... — More…
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Special offer. Schoenberg: Von Heute Auf Morgen
Georg Nigl (Mann), Brigitte Geller (Frau), Sonia Visentin (Freundin), Mathias Schulz (Sänger) & Michelangelo D’Adamo (Kind)
Orchestra & Chorus Teatro La Fenice Venezia, Eliahu Inbal (conductor) & Andreas Homoki (director)
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Special offer. A Recital With Renée Fleming
Vienna At The Turn Of The 20th Century
Renée Fleming (soprano) & Maciej Pikulski (piano)
Fleming builds up a great sense of pathos in 'Um Mitternacht' and delivers a deeply affecting account of 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' supported by some wonderfully sensitive phrasing... — More…
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Special offer. Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
Thomas Johannes Mayer (Moses), John Graham-Hall (Aron), Nicky Spence (A Youth)
Orchestre et Chœurs de National de L'Opéra de Paris, Philippe Jordan (conductor) & Romeo Castellucci (director)
The musical standards are of an exceptionally high order, starting with the chorus of the Paris Opera…Graham-Hall does more than cope with Aron’s punishing tessitura…Castellucci brings live... — 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
