DVD Video, Tchaikovsky (composer)
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Tchaikovsky: The Enchantress
Asmik Grigorian (Nastasya (Kuma)), Iain MacNeil (Prince Nikita), Claudia Mahnke (Princess Yevpraksiya), Alexander Mikhailov (Prince Yuri), Frederic Jost (Mamïrov/Kudma), Zanda Švēde (Nenila)
Frankfurter Opern- und Museumorchester, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Valentin Uryupin, Vasily Barkhatov
Come for Grigorian, stay for the staging...Strongly recommended to those who enjoy exploring rare Russian repertoire. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Misha Didyk, Alexey Markov, Vladimir Stoyanov, Svetlana Aksenova, Larissa Diadkova
Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
It’s certainly wacky. But it’s followed through with rigorous brilliance…musically all is superb; this is the equal of Mariss Jansons’s first-rate Bavarian CD recording, with some of the same... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Opera Choice
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2018, Winner - Jahrespreis
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Special offer. New Year’s Concert
Live recording from the Teatro La Fenice, 1 January 2013
Desirée Rancatore (soprano) & Saimir Pirgu (tenor)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice & Members of the Ballet of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Igor Stravinsky/Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Mavra/Iolanta
RecommendedMirjam Mesak (Iolanta), Long Long (Vaudémont), Boris Prýgl (Robert), Markus Suihkonen (King René), Oğulcan Yilmaz (Ibn-Hakia); Anna El-Khashem (Parasha), Freddie de Tommaso (Vassili), Noa Beinart (Mother/Marta)
Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Axel Ranisch,...
[Mesak] makes an entirely convincing Iolanta, poised between innocence and experience, and singing with blazing conviction opposite Long Long’s lyrically ardent Vaudémont. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent (Mesak & Ioffe)
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Special offer. The Tchaikovsky Cycle Volume I
RecommendedAntonio Meneses (cello)
The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev
The young Tchaikovsky comes across here as an accomplished, often sober master rather than a spring-heeled individualist. Supreme cellist Meneses's more animated features grace the Rococo Variations. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Joan Rodgers - Songs and Arias
Masterclass with singers from British Youth Opera
Joan Rodgers (soprano)
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Special offer. The Tchaikovsky Cycle Volume II
Lydia Shernikh (Tatyana) & Alexander Nenadovsky (Onegin)
The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev
Of all Tchaikovsky's symphonies, the Second needs the most kick and sheer charm - not qualities uppermost in Fedoseyev's superbly controlled interpretation. The soloists in a strong selection... —
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