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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
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Ludwig Van Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, Eileen Farrell, Carol Smith, Richard Lewis, …
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R216
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A documentary following the acclaimed pianist on his 1957 trip to
the Soviet Union. Featuring music by Bach, Berg, Webern and
Shostakovich amongst others, the film includes previously unheard
performances of Gould's concerts in Moscow and Leningrad, when, at
the age of 24, he became the first North American to perform behind
the Iron Curtain.
With an ensemble comprising 170 musicians, Ingo Metzmacher leads
the Wiener Philharmoniker in this production of Bernd Alois
Zimmerman's rarely performed opera, staged at the Salzburg Festival
in 2012. The cast of 50 soloists includes Laura Aikin, Alfred Muff,
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner and Tomasz Konieczny.
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Season Songs
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Richard Edgar-Wilson, Eugene Asti, Sam Wilson, Benjamin Britten, John Parry, …
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R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
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Performance of Mariusz Trelinski's production of Tchaikovsky's
opera, recorded live at the Paleau de les Arts, Valencia, in 2011.
Kristine Opolais and Artur Rucinski lead the cast, with Omer Meir
Wellber conducting the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.
The second volume in the Beethoven symphonies cycle featuring
Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The set
features Beethoven's fourth, fifth, and sixth symphonies and
contains three documentaries with analysis and discussion of each
symphony by Christian Thielemann himself.
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Testamentum
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Giovanni Legrenzi, Riccardo Favero, Lia Serafini, Roberta Giua, Oficina Musicum
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R417
Discovery Miles 4 170
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Peter Seiffert and Petra Maria Schnitzer are the lead singers in
Robert Carsen's modern-day adaptation of Wagner's epic opera,
performed live at Barcelona's Gran Teatre Del Liceu in 2008.
Sebastian Weigle conducts the orchestra and chorus.
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The Power of Love
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Alice Coote, Graham Johnson, James Lynam Molloy, Maude Valerie White, Edward Elgar, …
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R417
Discovery Miles 4 170
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Nina Stemme plays Leonora in this all-star production of Verdi's
opera performed at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2008. Other cast
members include Salvatore Licitra as Alvaro and Carlos Alvarez as
Don Carlo. Zubin Mehta conducts the Staatsoper Orchestra.
American pianist Garrick Ohlsson performs Chopin's Piano Concertos
in a live 2009 recording with the Warsaw Philharmonic under the
direction of Antoni Wit.
A 2011 production from the Gran Teatre Del Liceu, featuring
performances by Roberto Alagna, Erwin Schrott, Marina Poplavskaya
and Béatrice Uria-Monzon. Stage direction is by Calixto Bieito,
with Marc Piollet conducting the Orchestra and Chorus.
Bernd Weikl takes the lead role in his production of Verdi's opera
recorded live at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern in 2010. Uwe
Sandner conducts, and there are performances by Adelheid Fink,
Wioletta Hebrowska, Carlos Aguirre and Yanyu Guo.
Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais takes the lead role in Dvorak's
opera about a water nymph who becomes a human being in order to
find love. Recorded at the Bavarian State Opera in 2010, the
production also features Klaus Florian Vogt, Nadia Krasteva,
Günther Groissböck and Janina Baechle. The conductor is Tomas
Hanus.
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Deutscher Musikwettbewerb
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Duo Riul, Johannes Brahms, Alban Berg, Claude Debussy, Witold Lutoslawski, …
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R417
Discovery Miles 4 170
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