DVD Video, Gluck (composer)
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Lionel Bringuier & Nelson Freire Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Nelson Freire (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Bringuier
Bringuier's evident penchant for chamber-like clarity reaps rewards in a taut yet genial reading [of the Roussel]...In the midst of their annual Proms marathon, these performances have a start... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Gluck: Alceste
Catherine Naglestad (Alceste), Donald Kaasch (Admète), Bernhard Schneider (Evandre), Catriona Smith (Le Coryphée), Johan Rydh (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon/Dieu infernal), Nam Soo Kim (La voix de l'Oracle), Motti Kastón (Apollon), Michael Ebbecke (Hercule), Wolfgang Probst (Un Héraut)
Staatsopernchor...
Naglestad's Alceste is passionate and torn, voluptuous of voice and compelling on stage. Carydis delivers wonderfully tasteful, intelligent Gluck, full of detail and exquisitely phrased. The... —
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Special offer. Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
Juliette Galstian (Iphigenie), Rodney Gilfrey (Oreste), Deon Van Der Walt (Pylades), Anton Scharinger (Thoas) & Martina Janková (Goddess Diana)
Orchestra « La Scintilla » of The Zurich Opera House (on historical instruments), William Christie (conductor) & Claus Guth (stage director)
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Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide & Iphigénie en Tauride
Recorded live at De Nederlandse Opera, September 2011
Véronique Gens (Iphigénie), Salomé Haller (Diane), Nicolas Testé (Agamemnon) & Anne Sofie von Otter (Clytemnestre), Mireille Delunsch (Iphigénie), Laurent Alvaro (Thoas), Jean-François Lapointe (Oreste), Yann Beuron (Pylade) & Salomé Haller (Diane)
Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble &...
in this performance every cross-hatched, baleful figure is crisp and clear...Veronique Gens's submissive, poised Iphigénie [en Aulide] becomes Mireille Delunsch's red-eyed, hysterical Iphigénie... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, DVD of the Month
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Roberto Alagna (Orphée), Serena Gamberoni (Eurydice) & Marc Barrard (L'Amour)
Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra, Giampaolo Bisanti
The first of several fade-cuts… takes us to the scene of a car crash, where paramedics pull Eurydice's body from the wreckage. Thence to the graveyard, whence all that follows is Orphée's dream.... —
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
1859 version by Hector Berlioz
Marianne Crebassa (Orphée), Hélène Guilmette (Eurydice), Lea Desandre (Amour)
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon. Aurélien Bory (director)
Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa is a magnificent Orphée. Her bright, lyric mezzo is a bit more authoritative in the middle to upper registers than the lower one. But she sings with admirable... —
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Luciano Pavarotti: The 1984 Bari Recital
Formerly known as A Pavarotti Valentine
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Leone Magiera (piano)
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Special offer. Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Léopold Simoneau (Orphée), Pierrette Alarie (Eurydice) & Claire Gagnier (Amour)
Chorus and Orchestre de Radio-Canada, Otto-Werner Meuller
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Gluck: Orphée et Euridice
Juan Diego Flórez (Orphée), Christiane Karg (Euridice), Fatma Said (Amor); Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Michele Mariotti
Flórez burns up the stage, vocally, and dramatically. His voice is Orphic: supple, strong, many-hued and profoundly expressive; his inner turmoil is gripping. Choreographer Hofesh Shechter is... —
