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Marlis Petersen, Werner Güra & Dietrich Henschel RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs "I cannot think of a better present for anyone than René Jacobs's new version of Haydn's last oratorio, The Seasons. … all is exhilaration and joy." Gramophone Award Winner | 
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| |  | Bach - Christmas Oratorio (CD)
Christine Schäfer (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Werner Güra (tenor) & Gerald Finley & Christian Gerhaher (bass) Concentus Musicus Wien & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt Originally released in November 2007 as a limited edition specially-packaged pressing, Sony BMG is now making this definitive recording of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio available in standard packaging format |
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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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| |  | Vienna version, 1788Director: Vincent Boussard; Costumes: Christian Lacroix; Designer: Vincent Lemaire and Lighting: Alain Poisson
Johannes Weisser (Don Giovanni), Marcos Fink (Leporello), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Donna Elvira), Werner Güra (Don Ottavio), Malin Byström (Donna Anna), Sunhae Im (Zerlina), Nikolai Borchev (Masetto) & Alessandro Guerzoni (Commendatore) Freiburger Barockorchester & Innsbruck Festival Chorus, René Jacobs (musical direction) After the success of Così fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro, René Jacobs' CD recording of this
centrepiece of the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy offered us his reflections on Classical opera and
garnered serious acclaim worldwide. Performed at the Innsbruck festival in August 2006 and filmed in Baden
-Baden, this production is nourished by his thoughts on Don Giovanni as taboo-breaker but still respects
Mozart's intentions as closely as possible.
In the documentary Looking for Don Giovanni, the director Nayo Titzin follows the creation of this
production in the search for musical truth. A blu-ray version will be released later this year. “The Lacroix-dressed cast in Innsbruck performed as a true ensemble. Johannes Weisser was an energetic Giovanni, Marcos Fink a huge hit as the hapless Leporello. Alexandrina Pendatchanska fully inhabited the role of Elvira and Sunhae Im was a remarkable Zerlina, bringing a touch of wiliness to the character’s vulnerability.” Gramophone “The sets are extremely simple, the voices not powerful but fresh, and there's a spontaneity about most of the show.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2008 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart - Lieder & Klavierstücke
Mozart: | Die Verschweigung, K518 Das Lied der Trennung, K519 Wie unglücklich bin ich nit K147 Sei du mein Trost, K391 Fantasia in D minor, K397 Lied zur Gesellenreise, K468 Die betrogene Welt, K474 Gigue in G Major, K574 Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge, K596 Der Fruhling, K597 Das Vielchen, K476 Rondo in F major K494 Das Traumbild, K.530 Dans un bois solitaire, K308 Sechs Variationen in G-Dur, K180 ("Mio caro Adone") An Chloë, K524 Die Zufriedenheit, K473 Abendempfindung an Laura, K523 |
Werner Güra (tenor) & Christoph Berner (fortepiano Streicher) After their highly personal exploration of the
Romantic lied,Werner Güra and Christoph Berner
now turn to a less well-known repertoire with this
selection of vocal and instrumental works.
Songs for voice and piano occupied Mozart almost
throughout his career as a composer. Between the
first extant song, An die Freude K53, written in the
autumn of 1768, and the last three completed in
January 1791, there are around thirty more works in the genre, which are spread irregularly over his
different creative periods.A dominant position is occupied by the year 1787, in which nearly a third of his
total song output is concentrated.
The Rondo in F major K494 of June 1786 is seldom played in its original version, namely as a separate piano
piece. Mozart later extended this graceful work by a few bars, changed the tempo marking, and used it in
this form as the final movement of his Piano Sonata K533. Scarcely better known is the 'kleine Gigue' in G
major K574.While the rondo is typical of the musical fashions of Mozart's time, the gigue harks back to the
long-vanished era of Bach and Handel. In this piece Mozart goes so far as to appropriate a theme from one
of Handel's harpsichord suites.Traces of Mozart's legendary skill in keyboard improvisation may be found in
the Fantasia in D minor K397 (1782), which is now among his most frequently played piano works.The Six
Variations in G major K180 are based on a theme from the Act II finale of Antonio Salieri's opera La fiera di
Venezia, with which Mozart probably became acquainted in Vienna in the summer of 1773.
As a lieder interpreter Werner Güra gives recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, Lincoln Center in New York, the Barcelona Schubertiade and the Schubertiade
Schwarzenberg.Among his successful recordings for harmonia mundi are programmes of Schubert,
Schumann and Wolf - all selected as Editor's Choice by Gramophone magazine. “Werner Gürna makes real performance art of the slightest ditty. Christoph Berner, on his sweet-toned Streicher fortepiano, is intimately attuned to every nuance.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bach - Christmas Oratorio (SACD)
Christine Schäfer (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Werner Güra (tenor) & Gerald Finley & Christian Gerhaher (bass) Concentus Musicus Wien & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt “Harnoncourt and his fine line-up of soloists bring declamatory emphasis to Bach's music imbuing the work with a feeling of consequence not always to be found in competing versions.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2007 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Marlis Petersen (soprano), Stella Doufexis (alto), Werner Güra (tenor), Konrad Jarnot (baritone) & Christoph Berner, Camillo Radicke (pianos) Musically speaking, these pieces derive wholly from the spirit of the Viennese waltz, the ländler and other
forms of Viennese popular music.The Liebeslieder-Walzer Op.52 are basically a dialogue between the sexes.
Numbers for all four voices alternate with duets and a few pieces for solo voice. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Werner Güra (tenor) & Christoph Berner (piano Ehrbar c.1877-8) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Patricia Petibon (soprano), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Michael Schade (tenor), Malin Hartelius (soprano), Werner Güra (tenor), Johannes Kalpers (tenor), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Elisabeth von Magnus (mezzo-soprano) & Florian Boesch (bass) Concentus Musicus Wein, Nikolaus Harnoncourt “The musical adventurer par excellence,… the scholarly conductor with temperament, the thinking musician who makes music with rough edges.” Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Schöne Wiege meiner LeidenBrahms and Clara & Robert Schumann lieder
Werner Güra (tenor); Christoph Berner (piano Ehrbar) "Few recordings in the catalogue recreate so perfectly the fleetness of spirit, the elusive longing, impetuous excitement and anger within these tiny cameos of emotion." Benchmark, BBC Music Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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