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| |  | Offenbach - Belle Nuit
Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo-soprano) Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Ulf Schirmer The collection includes excerpts from well-known works such as Orpheus in the Underworld, La Périchole and La Belle Hélène. On this live recording from October 2007 in the Philharmonic Hall in Munich, she is accompanied by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Ulf Schirmer “A Bulgarian voice to blast you off your feet…Her vocal range is stunning” The Independent “…best of all are the Overture and two numbers from Barbe-bleue. The second, 'Faut-il y aller…' bubbles over into toe-tapping delight. Kasarova doesn't just sing: she 'performs' the music.” BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008 **** “…a pleasant stroll through the standard repertory. The track that gives the CD its title, the Barcarolle from Hoffmann, goes especially well, with Kasarova joined by Melissa Shippen.” Gramophone Magazine, 2008 Awards Issue | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Dorothea Röschmann, Bernarda Fink, Werner Güra & Christian Gerhaher Symphony Orchestra & Choir of the Bavarian Radio, Nikolaus Harnoncourt Das Paradies und die Peri tells the story of the Peri, a creature from Persian and Islamic mythology. She has been expelled from Paradise and tries to regain entrance by giving the gift that is most dear to heaven. Eventually, the Peri is admitted after bringing a tear from the cheek of a repentant old sinner who has been moved by a child praying. Live recording “Nikolaus Harnoncourt rivals John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv) in his acute feeling for pacing and atmosphere, and his sympathetic handling of Schumann's potentially square rhythmic structures.
Chorus, orchestra and soloists could hardly be bettered, with Christoph Strehl a lyrically eloquent narrator and Dorothea Röschmann by turns tender and fierily intense as the questing heroine.” Richard Wigmore, Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2008 “Bar a few ponderous moments in the otherwise fine cast, Harnoncourt, with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, is a gripping judge of narrative, exploiting the loneliness of Peri's disconsolate sobbing outside the gates of Heaven. Dorothea Röschmann is excellent as Peri, fluidly colouring hope and despair.” The Times, 24th May 2008 **** “With Dorothea Roschmann in the title role, and luxury support from the likes of Bernarda Fink and Christian Gerhaher, Harnoncourt lends this charming work the polish it deserves.” The Observer, 25th May 2008 “Das Paradies… contains music that is at once dramatic, lyrical, ethereal, deeply personal and shot through with sincere human feeling. I prefer Gardiner's principal tenor Christoph Prégardien to Harnoncourt's heavier-voiced Strehl but the consistently intense and expressive Dorothea Röschmann wins out over the creamy but less dramatically engaging Barbara Bonney. Harnoncourt's Bavarian RSO sound warm, though period awareness on the conductor's part ensures sonorities that are light and pointedly attenuated.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Keith Lewis (tenor) Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Grace Hoffmann (alto), Albert Gassner (tenor), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Franz Crass (bass) Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Rafael Kubelik Recorded live 1968.
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| |  | From the Herkulessaal in Munich 1984
Edith Mathis, Trudeliese Schmidt, Peter Schreier, Gwynne Howell The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bruckner - Masses 1-3
Edith Mathis, Marga Schiml, Wieslaw Ochman, Karl Ridderbusch, Maria Stader, Claudia Hellman, Ernst Haefliger, Kim Borg Bavarian Radio Chorus & Symphony Orchestra, Eugen Jochum Judged to perfection, Jochum's mass series holds in exquisite balance the choral line, the perfect tempo and a keen feeling for the works' spiritual dimension - James Jolly, Gramophone 1000th issue | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Janacek - Piano Works
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John Tomlinson (bass), Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Boje Skovhus (baritone), Kjell Magnus Sandve (tenor), Ursula Kunz (alto), Martin Hausberg (bass), Andreas Schulist (tenor), Rudolf Hillebrand (baritone) Munich Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus, Leopold Hager | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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