DVD Video, Berg (composer)
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Crazy Girl Crazy: Music by Gershwin, Berg and Berio
Recommendedincluding bonus documentary DVD
Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor)
Ludwig Orchestra
Crazy Girl Crazy is an album that – just like its muse and protagonist – flouts the rules…The litheness of Hannigan’s voice beguiles, so that the near-segue into the Lulu Suite (1934) comes... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd September 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Recording of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recording - voice (Oratorio/Concert/Lied)
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Berg: Wozzeck
RecommendedChristian Gerhaher (Wozzeck), Brandon Jovanovich (Drum Major), Mauro Peter (Andres), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Captain), Lars Woldt (Doctor) & Gun-Brit Barkmin (Marie)
Chor der Oper Zurich & Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Andreas Homoki (stage director)
While the Lieder-like beauty of Gerhaher’s singing Is matchless – he can act too – this is no star vehicle. It is ensemble work of the highest order…the relationships are brilliantly drawn,... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, DVD/Blu-ray Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Opera
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Video Performance
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Every nuance [of The Rite] is crafted, each detail considered, yet there is still a sense of danger and visceral power…Rattle and the LSO are joined, usurped even, by the extraordinary Barbara... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Berg: Lulu
Barbara Hannigan (Lulu), Natascha Petrinsky (Geschwitz), Tom Randle (Maler & Neger), Dietrich Henschel (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), Charles Workman (Alwa), Pavlo Hunka (Schigolch), Ivan Ludlow (Tierbändiger & Athlete)
Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie, Paul Daniel
It's a comparatively rare occurrence to encounter a performance on the opera stage that has such a magnetic visual and physical impact as Barbara Hannigan's portrayal of Berg's tragic heroine...Her... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, DVD of the Month
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Opera, March 2015, Disc of the Month
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Opera, March 2015, Recording of the Week
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Berg: Wozzeck
RecommendedChristopher Maltman (Wozzeck), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Marie), Frank van Aken (Drum Major), Sir Willard White (Doctor)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of Dutch National Opera, New Amsterdam Children's Choir,
Marc Albrecht (conductor) & Krzysztof Warlikowski (director)
A very fine performance of Berg's great music drama —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. Berg: Wozzeck
Dale Duesing, Kristine Ciesinski, Ronald Hamilton, Dieter Bundschuh & Barry Banks, Stage Direction by Peter Mussbach
Choir and Children’s Choir of the Frankfurt Opera & Frankfurter Museumsorchester, Sylvain Cambreling
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Claudio Abbado conducts Prokofiev, Berg & Tchaikovsky
Lucerne Festival at Easter 2010
Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Claudio Abbado
It's amazing the way Abbado brings the melodic writing to the fore in the very different worlds of the Prokofiev and the Berg Lulu Suite, crowned by Anna Prohaska's meaningful characterisation...As... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, DVD Choice
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Berg: Violin Concerto & Mendelssohn: Scottish Symphony
Baiba Skride (violin), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons
Head buried in the score, Nelsons nonetheless holds a firm grip on the relentless motor rhythms powering the event’s premiere, commissioned from Steffen Schleiermacher…Skride gives a requiescal... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Berg: Wozzeck
Georg Nigl (Wozzeck), Mardi Byers (Marie), Maxim Paster (Captain), Pyotr Migunov (Doctor) & Roman Muravitsky (Drum-major)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre, Teodor Currentzis
there's little doubt that much credit for this significant revival must be given to Teodor Currentzis, whose committed conducting inspires the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra to deliver an urgent... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Berg: Wozzeck
Franz Grundheber (Wozzeck), Hildegard Behrens (Marie), Walter Raffeiner (Tambourmajor), Philip Langridge (Andres), Heinz Zednik (Hauptmann), Aage Haugland (Doktor); Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado, Adolf Dresen (dir.)
