This is the second of four albums in a recording cycle that explores the closely intertwined personal and artistic connections between three musical giants: Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms. Robert Schumann’s and Johannes Brahms’s symphonies are paired and combined with Clara Schumann’s chamber works and orchestral pieces, including some special gems.
— More Info— Buy on Apple Music— Buy on Amazon— Buy on ArchambaultA two-disc collection of Korngold's complete songs that includes previously unrecorded versions of Korngold's works.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonAdrianne’s first release with Delos features a varied program of songs by Strauss and Wagner. Collaborating with technical finesse and interpretive sensitivity is pianist Brian Zeger, one of the great piano collaborators of our time. Adrianne’s first release with Delos features a varied program of songs by Strauss and Wagner. Collaborating with technical finesse and interpretive sensitivity is pianist Brian Zeger, one of the great piano collaborators of our time.
— More Info— Buy on Amazon.com— Buy on Amazon.ca— Buy on Amazon.deThe last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking lyrical event of these last years in Aix-en-Provence. This production is led by three amazing singers: the German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius gave a tremendous, never-to-be-forgotten account of the title role, Waltraud Meier portrays a human and chilling Clytemnestra and Adrianne Pieczonka is a fantastic Chrysothemis. Loneliness and intimate struggles are Patrice Chéreau’s favorites theatrical themes. With Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Orchestre de Paris, this production of Elektra is an unforgettable experience.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonThe Gala presented by the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2011 in support of Aids-related charities brought together the cream of Europe’s opera singers, in a programme of well-lover operatic excerpts, from Rossini, through Verdi to Wagner. Heading the star-studded line-up were established artists of the calibre of Adrianne Pieczonka, Vivica Genaux and Simone Kermes, while the younger generation was represented by tenors Francesco Demuro, Antonio Poli and Teodor Illincai, as well as the exciting soprano Kristin Lewis and mezzo-soprano Anna Smirnova.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonWith Edita Gruberova and the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Friedrich Haider.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonAs performed on November 8, 2003, this opera gala was mounted to raise money for the German AIDS Foundation. It brings numerous celebrated classical vocalists together with the chorus and orchestra of the Deusche Oper Berlin and the conductor Kent Nagano; the ensemble performs extracts from works by such composers as Richard Strauss (Der Rosenkavalier), Ruggero Leoncavallo (Pagliacci), Mozart (Le Nozze di Figaro) and many others.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonFour decades into a legendary Met career, tenor Plàcido Domingo makes history singing the title role in Verdi’s gripping political thriller, which is written for a baritone. Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, and James Morris are his co-stars in this moving and tragic story of a father and his lost daughter.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonA star-studded benefit concert to celebrate Ioan Holender’s farewell after 19 years as the director of one of the world’s leading and most famous opera houses. The program incorporates an impressive musical review of the Holender era from 1991 to 2010, presenting excerpts from 40 of the 93 premieres, in many cases performed by members of the original cast, but also screening parts of the original productions.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonArthaus presents one of the most talked about productions of recent Salzburg festival years – the 2004 staging of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. The musical comedy has a deep-rooted performance tradition at the Salzburg Festival, but Robert Carsen’s new reading opened up a new view of this operatic staple while Semyon Bychkov leading the Vienna Philharmonic and a cast of internationally renowned singers guaranteed a high musical standard.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonDe Simone succeeds in sticking to the flow of the plot and to the music, in which the soloists and Riccardo Muti’s state opera orchestra have a crucial part. Muti spiritedly conducts with a sense for style and gives the singers room to shine. In the baroque ambiance of the theatre on the river Wien, we experience a “Don Giovanni” in a unique unity of theatrical pretence and top-rate musical performance.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonWinner of a 2010 JUNO Award and the Empfohlen von Klassik Award.
— More Info— Buy on Amazon.com— Buy on Amazon.caWinner of the BBC Music Magazine's 2010 Awards for Opera and Disc of the Year.
— More Info— Buy on Amazon— Buy on iTunesWith the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano, conductor.
— More Info— Buy on Amazon— Buy on iTunesAldeburgh Connection’s newest CD called “Our own Songs” features a collection of commissioned works by three prominent Canadian composers: John Greer, Derek Holman and John Beckwith. The compositions were inspired by a wide range of influences: an Agnolo Bronzino painting; classical Greek and Latin poetry; the poems of Douglas LePan; Henry Purcell’s Dido’s Lament; the music of Robert Burns and the writing of Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence.
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— More Info— Buy on AmazonDeborah Warner sets the 1995 production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni for the Glyndebourne Festival in modern dress in the 20th century. The fiery opera tells the story of a compulsive seducer; who schemes, lies and murders to gratify his lust, before being dragged to hell.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonWith the Nicholaus Esterházy Sinfonia and Michael Halász, conductor.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonWith Bryn Terfel, Thomas Hampson, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and Claudio Abaddo, conductor.
— More Info— Buy on Amazon— Buy on iTunesWith Edita Gruberova, Kurt Moll, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, and Friedrich Haider, conductor.
— More Info— Buy on AmazonWith Richard Margison, Michael Schade, Russell Braun, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
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