Posts Tagged ‘Sebastian Spreng’
The Classical Review’s Best Recordings of 2011 – Dec 24, 2011
MONK Songs of Ascension (ECM) On the eve of her 70th birthday in late 2012, Meredith Monk’s tenth recording for ECM produced one of [...]
MARIE-NICOLE LEMIEUX Ne me refuse pas – Jan 19, 2011
Armed with impeccable musicianship and an intuitive sense of grandeur, Marie-Nicole Lemieux’s main asset is a distinctive sound that sets her apart from the [...]
MASSENET Werther – Jan 14, 2011
Werther, the epitome of the romantic German hero – in Massenet’s adaptation a sort of “French Tristan” – has found in Jonas Kaufmann’s ardent [...]
MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Jan 03, 2011
The Mahler feast continues as 2010’s 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth gives way to 2011, the centenary year of his death. No one [...]
TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin – Apr 21, 2010
Dmitri Tcherniakov’s deceptively naturalistic and deeply personal take on a hallowed Bolshoi favourite arrived in the Palais Garnier, Paris wreathed in controversy, having shocked [...]
DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor – Apr 21, 2010
Since its appearance in the opening season of the Met in 1883, Lucia di Lammermoor has enjoyed a long and venerable history in the house [...]
RICHARD STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier – Apr 21, 2010
The controversial 1995 Salzburg/Paris co-production of Der Rosenkavalier received a well-deserved revival at the Baden-Baden Festival in 2009. Now on DVD, Herbert Wernicke’s 15-year-old [...]
