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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 4, 8 & 9
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras |
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| |  | The tragic libretto portrays a woman driven to despair and suicide by her husband and monstrous mother-in-law. The result is a deeply moving, intensely lyrical work, as engaging in the beauty of the vocal and orchestral writing as in its story – which also revealed the tragedy of Slavic provincial life, of which Janácek was only too well aware: ‘There is much sadness and Slav tenderness and depth of feeling in it. May I find the right way to express it with equal intensity’, wrote Janácek on The Storm, the Ostrovsky play that was his source for Katya Kabanova.
Cheryl Barker (soprano) / Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano) / Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano) / Kathleen Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano) / Claire Hampton (soprano) / Robert Brubaker (tenor) / Peter Hoare (tenor) / Peter Wedd (tenor) / Owen Webb (baritone) / Gwynne Howell (bass) / Sian Meinir (mezzo-soprano) & Philip Lloyd-Holtam (tenor) Chorus of Welsh National Opera & Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi Only available recording in English “Cheryl Barker’s Katya is a huge achievement, rapturously sung, pertinently acted…” Venue Magazine (on WNO's performances of Katya Kabanova) “…Rizzi illuminates… with almost Puccinian warmth, while keenly evoking the tightening tensions beneath. …Barker's… intense soprano, large for the role, makes Katya sound stronger than usual yet also more neurotic… Her brief over Boris, sung with appropriate charm and vague callousness by Robert Brubaker, and her useless husband Tchon, well sketched by Peter Hoare, are just the agents. Katya's real downfall is the trap set by her oppressive mother-in-law Kabanicha... Jane Henschel sings her with steely hauteur...” BBC Music Magazine, December 2007 *****  BBC Music Magazine
Opera Choice - December 2007 |
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Christine Brewer, Richard Margison, Robert Lloyd, Rebecca Evans, Peter Wedd, Pavlo Hunka, Christopher Purves Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, René Pape, Falk Struckmann, Robert Lloyd Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Sylvia McNair, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Jerry Hadley, Robert Lloyd Academy & Chorus of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Plácido Domingo, Robert Lloyd, Cheryl Studer, Hartmut Welker, Dunja Vejzovic, Georg Tichy Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Claudio Abbado | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Christopher Gillett, Josephine Barstow, Felicity Palmer, Robert Lloyd, Peter Savidge, Gerald Finley, Ann Taylor, Della Jones, Susan Gritton, Stuart Kale Northern Sinfonia, Stuart Bedford | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Vladimir Chernov, Kiri Te Kanawa, Plácido Domingo, Robert Lloyd Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine Subtitles in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Robert Lloyd, Olga Borodina, Alexei Steblianko, Sergei Leiferkus Kirov Opera, Valery Gergiev | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Gramophone Awards 2008
BBC Music Magazine Awards 2008
