DVD Video, Mozart (composer)
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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Robert Gleadow (Don Giovanni), Riccardo Novaro (Leporello), Florie Valiquette (Donna Anna), Arianna Vendittelli (Donna Elvira), Enguerrand de Hys (Don Ottavio), Éléonore Pancrazi (Zerlina), Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (Masetto), Nicolas Certenais (Commendatore)
Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Gaétan...
In general the cast is made up of fine voices, though with no stars. Robert Gleadow’s fast-thinking Giovanni summons up boundless vocal and physical energy...Musically, the period instrumentalists... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, DVD of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Mozart: La flûte enchantée
Mathias Vidal (Tamino), Florie Valiquette (Pamina), Marc Scoffoni (Papageno), Lisa Mostin (La Reine de la Nuit), Tomislav Lavoie (Sarastro), Olivier Trommenschlager (Monostatos), Pauline Feracci (Papagena)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
This is a very Gallic Magic Flute. Recorded in Versailles’ theatre, Mozart’s ‘divine pantomime’ is sung in French with Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel offering those clean-limbed musical... —
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
RecommendedErwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)
…so accomplished a cast, in which Gerald Finley's Count, Miah Persson's Susanna and Rinat Shaham's Cherubino stand out as ideal. —
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Building a Library, May 2014, First Choice (DVD)
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - DVD
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Special offer. Friedrich Gulda: Mozart For The People
Live from the Amerikahaus in Munich, February 27 1981
Friedrich Gulda (piano)
This feels like a master’s purest thoughts on another master —
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Mozart: L'Enlèvement du Sérail (French Version)
Mathias Vidal (Belmont), Florie Valiquette (Constance), Gwendoline Blondeel (Blonde), Nicolas Brooymans (Osmin), Enguerrand de Hys (Pédrille), Michel Fau (Sélim)
Orchestre et Chœur de l'Opéra Royal, Gaétan Jarry
Florie Valiquette is a silvery toned Constance with all the vocal dexterity needed for the coloratura flights of fancy in her Act 2 aria...Enguerrand de Hys is a spirited Pédrille, and you readily... —
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David Oistrakh plays Bach, Mozart & Brahms
Igor Oistrakh (violin) & David Oistrakh (violin), Igor Oistrakh (violin) & David Oistrakh (viola), David Oistrakh (violin)
English Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, Colin Davis, Yehudi Menuhin, Kirill Kondrashin
you'd be hard-pressed to find a more unanimous pair of soloists [in the Bach] than the Oistrakhs. The camerawork allows us to see them in action with little distraction, and phrasing, dynamics... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - DVD Performance
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Miah Persson (Fiordiligi), Anke Vondung (Dorabella), Ainhoa Garmendia (Despina), Topi Lehtipuu (Ferrando), Luca Pisaroni (Guglielmo), Nicolas Rivenq (Don Alfonso)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Ivan Fischer
When I saw this production at Glyndebourne last May, I thought that it was one of the three perfect operatic performances that I have ever been to. That view is only strengthened by seeing... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - DVD
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, DVD Choice
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Mozart: Così fan tutte
Elsa Dreisig (Fiordiligi), Marianne Crebassa (Dorabella), Lea Desandre (Despina), Bogdan Volkov (Ferrando), André Schuen (Guglielmo), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Alfonso)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Joana Mallwitz, Christof Loy (stage director)
It’s frankly difficult to imagine a better-cast Così today...Mallwitz really makes Mozart’s score zing, keeping the Vienna Philharmonic light on their toes. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, DVD of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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New. Nikolaus Harnoncourt: The Complete Teldec Recordings
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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28 CDs + DVD Video
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If the programme sounds familiar, the reality is anything but. The first movement of Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 2 No. 3 emerges spacious and unhurried…The Op. 119 Bagatelles are an even greater... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th May 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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2 CDs + DVD Video
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