classical music: Nikolaus Harnoncourt

classical music: Nikolaus Harnoncourt

classical music:

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (with Excerpts from the Rehearsals) [Hybrid SACD]

Anton Bruckner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, ...

RCA, 2005

One Of The Best Bruckner 5th Symphony Recordings Currently Available
Nikolaus Harnoncourt's 2004 live recording of the Bruckner 5th Symphony performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker is among the finest available. It is definitely the most interesting release now, simply because Harnoncourt, as the fine musicologist that he is, has done a ...

Haydn - Armida / Bartoli · Petibon · Prégardien · M. Schäfer · Wier · Harnoncourt

Joseph Haydn, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, ...

Warner Music France, 2000

Sometimes aggressive leadership
This recording stunned me. Cecilia Bartoli can sing softly and less affected as this recording shows one. All the performers are up to their tasks and they show no fear of Harnoncourt's sometimes aggressive leadership and the Concentus Musicus Wien sounds ...

Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 [Hybrid SACD with CD-ROM track of Mozart's Original Manuscript]

W. A. Mozart, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, ...

RCA, 2004

gran perfomance y sonido
gran obra,excelente la dirección y los trabajos vocales, pero todo esto se disfruta, aún más, por un sonido de primera cálidad. altamente recomendable.

Mozart - La Clemenza di Tito / Dorothea Roschmann, Michael Schade, Barbara Bonney, Elina Garanca, Vesselina ...

Vesselina Kasarova, Luca Pisaroni

Tdk DVD Video, 2006

A Desert Island 'Tito'!
I saw photos of this show on operajaponica and other sites before it was released, but they don't do it justice. The two trouser roles are marvellously sung and believable! Kasarova and Garanca may not look butch but one won't forget they're playing male characters. ...

Gershwin: Porgy & Bess

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Don't laugh, but Harnoncourt deserves his top billing
It seems more than faintly comical: the scowling Nikolaus Harnoncourt, soon t turn eighty, conducting Porgy and Bess? In Graz with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe? And yet the result is utterly gripping, by far the most energetic, theatrical Porgy on disc. Where other ...

Cecilia Bartoli - Mozart Arias

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Cecilia Bartoli, ...

Erato, 1996

Rich full bodied delivery of superb selections of Mozart's art
The rich full voice of Cecilia Bartoli really shines in these selections. I suspect that her native language of Italian is a contributing factor to the totally natural sound of her lyrics and voice. Bartoli has a dramatic flair that emerges in her delivery that seems ...

Bach: The Sacred Cantatas [Box Set]

Max van Egmond, Walker Wyatt, ...

Warner Classics, 2008

A Recording Monument
I have an earlier and more expensive offering of this set and echo the superlatives given by other reviewers. Whatever the meaning or intentions of the "historically informed" musical movement was or are this enterprise was it's first major triumph. And, it is true ...

Monteverdi - L'Orfeo

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Philippe Huttenlocher

Deutsche Grammophon, 2007

Still the best of the lot
The long-awaiting DVD of this production is out, and it is fabulous. As one could expect from DGG, the sound and visuals are first-rate. If you have to choose only one recording of this great opera, this is the one to get (I have them all, I think). The costumes are ...

Tune Your Brain: Pregnancy and Childbirth

Mischa Maisky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2000

proud father to be
I found this cd after my wife gave birth to our first child unfortunately. Now my wife is expecting our second child. I am a big believer in classical music for unborn babies, delivery rooms, all the way to kindergarten. My four year old daughter hears 'twinkle ...

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (with the Documentation of the Finale Fragment) [Hybrid SACD]

Anton Bruckner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, ...

RCA, 2003

Terrific performance!
The symphony recording is damn good, and the extras are very interesting (to hear Harnoncourt speaking German and English, to hear the sketches of the last movement). In my mind, this ranks among the very best -- with Celibidache on EMI, Giulini on DG, Bernstein on DG, ...

Bach: Voices Of Angels

Johann Sebastian Bach, Gustav Leonhardt, ...

Teldec, 1994

Angels amoung us
If there are truly angels amoung us, this is what they must sound like; beautiful voices without spot or blemish that soar through the heavenly hights! Bach wrote some of the most beautiful music of the baroque era, if not all time and this is some of the very best! ...

Mozart: Symphonies 31, 39, 40, 41/Schubert: Symphony No. 4

Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Deutsche Grammophon, 2007

Harnoncourt conducts Mozart his way
These two DVDs feature Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the splendid Vienna Philharmonic in Mozart's Symphony No.31 'Paris' as well as Schubert's Symphony No.4 'Tragic'. He conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Mozart's Symphonies No.39, 40 & 41. As an interesting ...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt: An Advent Concert of Music by Bach

Christine Schafer, Anna Korondi

Kultur Video, 2003

Transcendant Beauty
This DVD is one I play all year round, not just at Advent: but particularly during that time, when meditation and comtemplation of the ever-renewed miracle of Christmas should be on one's mind, this music and these performers will help keep the commercial clamor at ...

Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro

Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Roschmann

Deutsche Grammophon, 2007

Great Singing, wierd production
Singing doesn't get any better than this, but the weird production and lack of thoughtfullness in set design, make this off-puting. I don't like singers lying on the floor when such staging has no purpose at all. This should have been released as a CD and not a DVD. ...