DVD Video, Elgar (composer)
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This Is Rattle
Grime, Ades. Birtwistle, Knussen & Elgar
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
The dazzling panache of the LSO’s playing has you wondering all over again at the mesmerising range of options that Adès’s ear and technical command can summon…And Elgar’s Enigma Variations... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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DVD Video + Blu-ray
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Sir Colin Davis Anthology
Limited Edition of 5000
Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... —
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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38
Dame Janet Baker (The Angel), John Shirley Quirk (The Priest & The Angel of the agony) & Peter Pears (Gerontius)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Sir Adrian Boult
Boult’s handling of the Prelude, and his masterly accompaniment – especially to Janet Baker’s radiant final benediction – is so beautiful, so magisterial in its intensity, that it feels as though... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, DVD of the Month
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Solti in Europe
Georg Kulenkampff (violin), Sir Georg Solti (piano), Max Lichtegg (tenor), Clifford Curzon (piano), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Martti Talvela (bass), András Schiff (piano), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz, Anne Sofie...
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44 CDs + 2 DVD Videos
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A Musical Journey: SCOTLAND AND ITS CASTLES
Edinburgh • Inveraray • Urquhart Blair • Eilean Donan Dunvegan
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Andrew Davis presents the documentary in an engaging style, giving an overview of the variations, as well as homing in on several of them. …there's a lot of information presented in an unassuming... —
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Special offer. Yuri Temirkanov at the BBC Proms
Royal Albert Hall, London, 26 August 1992
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov
The Tchaikovsky is a beautiful and dramatic performance, though whether the DVD is worth buying rather depends on your feelings about the last two movements. Both have extensive cuts...and amendments...Overall,... —
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Special offer. Midsummer Night's Gala Grafenegg
Pretty Yende (soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Harriet Krijgh (cello)
Tonkunstler Orchestra, Yutaka Sado
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