Renata Scotto, soprano. The Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Ervin Lukacs, conductor.
Studio: VAI Audio. Format: DVD Full screen.
UPC: 089948443094. Daedalus Item Code: 26006
The magnificent artistry of one of opera's greatest divas is heard and seen in a live 1991 concert with orchestra. The program includes the Berlioz song cycle Les nuits d'été and arias from ... (Read More)
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Renata Tebaldi, soprano. Louis Quilico, baritone, & others. CBC Festival Orchestra. Ernesto Barbini, conductor.
Studio: VAI Audio. Format: DVD Full screen.
UPC: 089948425595. Daedalus Item Code: 26003
In 1965, Renata Tebaldi appeared on Canadian television in an evening of music by Puccini and Rossini. The highlight was a staging of the finale of Act II of Tosca. Tebaldi, at her vocal and ... (Read More)
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Erik Frey, Paul Schoffler, Sena Jurinac & others. Wiener Philharmoniker. Karl Bohm, conductor.
Studio: TDK Marketing. Format: DVD Full screen.
UPC: 824121000776. Daedalus Item Code: 25887
Recorded live from the Salzburg Festival in 1965, this historic, black-and-white telecast of Strauss's story within a story features imaginative renditions of the host's salon, opera set, island, and ... (Read More)
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Rodney Jones, guitar. Brian Charette, organ. Lonnie Plaxico, bass. Ray Marchica, drums.
Studio: Mel Bay Publications. Format: DVD.
UPC: 796279099059. Daedalus Item Code: 25623
Jones combines harmonically intricate originals like "Groove Bone" and "One Turnip Green" with classics such as "Stella by Starlight," and "Manhã de Carnaval" in a set that juxtaposes traditional and ... (Read More)
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Studio: Eagle Rock Entertainment. Format: DVD Widescreen.
UPC: 801213059799. Daedalus Item Code: 38752
One wag called it a "gas, gas, gas" (in a good way). Coinciding with "50 and Counting"—the band's first tour together in five years—the documentary Crossfire Hurricane covers the history of ... (Read More)
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Vesselina Kasarova, Manuel Lanza, Reinaldo Macias & others. Chor und Orchester der Oper Zurich. Nello Santi, conductor.
Studio: Euroarts. Format: DVD Widescreen.
UPC: 880242512482. Daedalus Item Code: 25836
Rossini's comic but pointed opera The Barber of Seville is well served in this production from 2001. In the cast are several performers associated with La Scala, including Reinaldo Macias as ... (Read More)
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Bernadette Manca di Nissa, Maria Bayo, Raul Gimenez & others. Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart. Chorus of the Sudfunk Stuttgart. Gianluigi Gelmetti, conductor.
Studio: Arthaus Musik. Format: DVD Full screen.
UPC: 807280020694. Daedalus Item Code: 25769
Rossini's early fame was based both on Tancredi—his first great "opera seria"—and on the bubbly L'Italiana in Algeri, which debuted three months later. Following the first performance ... (Read More)
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UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra. Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor.
Studio: Medici Arts. Format: DVD Widescreen.
UPC: 899132000923. Daedalus Item Code: 25876
In a live performance from 2007's Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Finnish composer-conductor Salonen leads a scintillating program of his own L.A. Variations with "an absolutely authoritative ... (Read More)
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The only DVD with this famed song cycle sung by a tenor (in Schubert's original keys), Prégardien's Die schöne Mullerin also includes a bonus feature: "The Story Behind the Cycle," in which ... (Read More)
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Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano. Charles Spencer, piano.
Studio: Arthaus Musik. Format: DVD.
UPC: 807280214796. Daedalus Item Code: 25804
This wonderful performance of Schubert's great song cycle by Christa Ludwig (was there anything she couldn't do?) was recorded for television in 1994. A bonus feature shows the legendary singer ... (Read More)
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In this mix of Romantic and the Modern, Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 ("Death and the Maiden") is accompanied by Ravel's only foray into this genre. The Hagen is known for its juxtapositions; ... (Read More)
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