Showing posts with label Euro Arts. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Blu-ray - Waldbuhne - An Evening with Renee Fleming - Marin

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BD-25 Single-Layer Disc | 1080i/AVC MPEG-4 | 02:05:59 | 20.23 GB
Audio: DTS-HD MA 5.1, LPCM 2.0

The Waldbühne Concert given by the Berliner Philharmoniker marks the end of the 2009/10 season. More recently visitors to the orchestra’s Waldbühne concerts have been regaled by some of the greatest opera singers of our age, including such operatic legends as Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, the Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón and the wonderful Russian soprano Anna Netrebko.

A further high point in the history of the Waldbühne concerts was undoubtedly the appearance of the charismatic American soprano Renée Fleming, who brought to this “Night of Love” her soft-toned but richly coloured voice. “It’s such a beautiful place,” she told the Berliner Zeitung. “When you’re standing there on the stage, you have the feeling that you can sing into the sky.” Concert-goers must have been able to share this feeling when a singer described by the Daily Telegraph as the “queen of the Metropolitan Opera” sang the highly poetical Song to the Moon from Dvorák’s opera Rusalka and gazed lovingly at the orbiting moon, which had just become visible in the night sky.

Track list:

Modest Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
Antonin Dvořák: Rusalka, Op. 114, B. 203, Act I: Mešíčku na nebi hlubokém
Aram Il'yich Khachaturian: Spartacus: Spartacus and Phrygia
Richard Strauss: Capriccio, Op. 85, TrV 279: Morgen mittag um elf!
Richard Wagner: Rienzi: Overture
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die Tote Stadt, Op. 12, Act I: Glück, das mir verblieb
Richard Strauss: 8 Gedichte aus Letzte Blatter, Op. 10, TrV 141: No. 1. Zueignung
Edward Elgar: Salut d'amour, Op. 12
Giacomo Puccini: La bohème, Act III: D'onde lieta usci
Turandot, Act III: Tu, che di gel sei cinta
Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro
Ruggero Leoncavallo: La bohème (excerpts)
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Grigoras Dinicu: Hora Staccato
Paul Lincke: Frau Luna: Berliner Luft

Technical Specs
Blu-ray
BD-25 Single-Layer Disc

Video Resolution/Codec
1080i/AVC MPEG-4

Aspect Ratio(s)
1.78:1

Audio Formats
DTS-HD MA 5.1 (48 kHz / 4250 kbps / 24-bit)
LPCM 2.0 (48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit)

Subtitles/Captions
English
French
German

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Blu-ray - Waldbuhne - An Evening with Renee Fleming - Marin

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BD-25 Single-Layer Disc | 1080i/AVC MPEG-4 | 02:05:59 | 20.23 GB
Audio: DTS-HD MA 5.1, LPCM 2.0

The Waldbühne Concert given by the Berliner Philharmoniker marks the end of the 2009/10 season. More recently visitors to the orchestra’s Waldbühne concerts have been regaled by some of the greatest opera singers of our age, including such operatic legends as Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, the Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón and the wonderful Russian soprano Anna Netrebko.

A further high point in the history of the Waldbühne concerts was undoubtedly the appearance of the charismatic American soprano Renée Fleming, who brought to this “Night of Love” her soft-toned but richly coloured voice. “It’s such a beautiful place,” she told the Berliner Zeitung. “When you’re standing there on the stage, you have the feeling that you can sing into the sky.” Concert-goers must have been able to share this feeling when a singer described by the Daily Telegraph as the “queen of the Metropolitan Opera” sang the highly poetical Song to the Moon from Dvorák’s opera Rusalka and gazed lovingly at the orbiting moon, which had just become visible in the night sky.

Track list:

Modest Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
Antonin Dvořák: Rusalka, Op. 114, B. 203, Act I: Mešíčku na nebi hlubokém
Aram Il'yich Khachaturian: Spartacus: Spartacus and Phrygia
Richard Strauss: Capriccio, Op. 85, TrV 279: Morgen mittag um elf!
Richard Wagner: Rienzi: Overture
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die Tote Stadt, Op. 12, Act I: Glück, das mir verblieb
Richard Strauss: 8 Gedichte aus Letzte Blatter, Op. 10, TrV 141: No. 1. Zueignung
Edward Elgar: Salut d'amour, Op. 12
Giacomo Puccini: La bohème, Act III: D'onde lieta usci
Turandot, Act III: Tu, che di gel sei cinta
Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro
Ruggero Leoncavallo: La bohème (excerpts)
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Grigoras Dinicu: Hora Staccato
Paul Lincke: Frau Luna: Berliner Luft

Technical Specs
Blu-ray
BD-25 Single-Layer Disc

Video Resolution/Codec
1080i/AVC MPEG-4

Aspect Ratio(s)
1.78:1

Audio Formats
DTS-HD MA 5.1 (48 kHz / 4250 kbps / 24-bit)
LPCM 2.0 (48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit)

Subtitles/Captions
English
French
German

Links:
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

DVD - Bruckner: Symphony No.7 - Beethoven: Symphony No.3 - Brendel - Abbado

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DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Audio: LinearPCM, Dolby , DTS | Length: 106 min

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, op.37
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No 7 in E major
Live Recording from a Festival in Lucerne (2005)

Alfred Brendel, Piano
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, Conductor

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DVD - Bruckner: Symphony No.7 - Beethoven: Symphony No.3 - Brendel - Abbado

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DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Audio: LinearPCM, Dolby , DTS | Length: 106 min

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, op.37
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No 7 in E major
Live Recording from a Festival in Lucerne (2005)

Alfred Brendel, Piano
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, Conductor

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Blu-ray - Mahler: Symphony No.1 - Prokofiev: Piano Comcerto No.3

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The charismatic and inspiring Claudio Abbado and the mesmerising young pianist Yuja Wang, with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, hold the audience spellbound in this opening concert of the 2009 Lucerne Festival. Prokofiev's popular and vibrant Third Piano Concerto demonstrates the composer's sharp musical wit, and Yuja Wang is a brilliant exponent of the work. Following this, and chiming beautifully with the festival's theme of the relationship between art and nature, Mahler's First Symphony is given an illuminating and rapturously received performance.

Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with pianist Yuja Wang in works by Mahler and Prokofiev, summer 2009.

This classical music performance release features the opening concert of the 2009 Lucerne Festival. Claudio Abbado leads the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in interpretations of Sergey Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26 and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D Major, 'Titan'. World-renowned concert pianist Yuja Wang performs on the Prokofiev.

REPERTOIRE:
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major
“Like a cry of Nature”: thus the expression mark that opens Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony – and the programme of the Festival 2009 which takes up Nature as its guiding theme. Mahler, in the First Symphony, shaped the “cry of nature” into a musical vision of an entire human life in four stages – from a spring-like upsurge of feelings through desire and suffering, to the end of earthly existence and the entrance into Paradise.

The opening treats listeners to a spectacular début as the twenty-two-year-old Chinese pianist Yuja Wang plays Sergei Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto. In her Lucerne appearances she displays the full range of her artistry as Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto demands not only lyricism and intimacy but brilliance and virtuosity.

Claudio Abbado has realised a dream with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. The orchestra consists of an exclusive ensemble of handpicked musicians like Kolja Blacher and Sebastian Breuninger, Natalia Gutman, Clemens Hagen and Jens Peter Maintz.

Claudio Abbado is undeniably a supreme Mahler conductor and his best selling recordings with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra – symphonies No. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9 have already been released on EuroArts – have set new standards in interpretation of works by Gustav Mahler.

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Blu-ray - Mahler: Symphony No.1 - Prokofiev: Piano Comcerto No.3

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The charismatic and inspiring Claudio Abbado and the mesmerising young pianist Yuja Wang, with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, hold the audience spellbound in this opening concert of the 2009 Lucerne Festival. Prokofiev's popular and vibrant Third Piano Concerto demonstrates the composer's sharp musical wit, and Yuja Wang is a brilliant exponent of the work. Following this, and chiming beautifully with the festival's theme of the relationship between art and nature, Mahler's First Symphony is given an illuminating and rapturously received performance.

Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with pianist Yuja Wang in works by Mahler and Prokofiev, summer 2009.

This classical music performance release features the opening concert of the 2009 Lucerne Festival. Claudio Abbado leads the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in interpretations of Sergey Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26 and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D Major, 'Titan'. World-renowned concert pianist Yuja Wang performs on the Prokofiev.

REPERTOIRE:
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major
“Like a cry of Nature”: thus the expression mark that opens Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony – and the programme of the Festival 2009 which takes up Nature as its guiding theme. Mahler, in the First Symphony, shaped the “cry of nature” into a musical vision of an entire human life in four stages – from a spring-like upsurge of feelings through desire and suffering, to the end of earthly existence and the entrance into Paradise.

The opening treats listeners to a spectacular début as the twenty-two-year-old Chinese pianist Yuja Wang plays Sergei Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto. In her Lucerne appearances she displays the full range of her artistry as Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto demands not only lyricism and intimacy but brilliance and virtuosity.

Claudio Abbado has realised a dream with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. The orchestra consists of an exclusive ensemble of handpicked musicians like Kolja Blacher and Sebastian Breuninger, Natalia Gutman, Clemens Hagen and Jens Peter Maintz.

Claudio Abbado is undeniably a supreme Mahler conductor and his best selling recordings with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra – symphonies No. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9 have already been released on EuroArts – have set new standards in interpretation of works by Gustav Mahler.

Links:
Read More