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The Leonard Bernstein Concert Boxed Set

3 reviews
Leonard Bernstein, Gwyneth Jones

Kultur Video, 2005

One of the greatest classical music programs ever made
The following is not a review of the entire Bernstein Concert Boxed DVD Set, which was released in 2005. It is a review of "Bernstein on Beethoven: a Celebration in Vienna" only. It was written before the Boxed Set ever appeared on DVD: This 1970 Emmy Award winning program was languishing in the CBS vaults, almost forgotten, until the memorial tributes to Leonard Bernstein began appearing ...

Mahler: Lieder

2 reviews
Walton Groenroos, Thomas Hampson

Philips, 2007

Beautiful and tragic Lieder recital
If you are having a bad day and you're feeling depressed, you might not want to reach for this DVD. This recital of Mahler's beautiful but often tragic song cycles with orchestral accompaniment might just drive you over the edge. I'd prescribe Mozart for those days. But for every other occasion, this splendid DVD may be exactly what you need. Containing all of Mahler's mature song cycles (except ...

Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna/Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1

3 reviews
Leonard Bernstein, Gwyneth Jones

Kultur Video, 2006

One of the greatest classical music programs ever made
The following is not a review of the entire Bernstein Concert Boxed DVD Set, which was released in 2005. It is a review of "Bernstein on Beethoven: a Celebration in Vienna" only. It was written before the Boxed Set ever appeared on DVD: This 1970 Emmy Award winning program was languishing in the CBS vaults, almost forgotten, until the memorial tributes to Leonard Bernstein began appearing ...

Johann Strauss - Die Fledermaus / Popp, Gruberova, Fassbaender, Weikl, Berry, Hopferwieser, Kunz, ...

12 reviews
Lucia Popp, Edita Gruberova

Tdk DVD Video, 2005

Delightful
This performance of Die Fledermaus operetta is really a delight. The performance is outstanding. I always knew that Gruberova has a wonderful voice and her parts in a variety of operas are outstanding, but in this particular one she comes out as an outstanding theatrical performer too. The rest of the cast is similarly outstanding. What a wonderful and extremely funny performance. It may be ...

Beethoven - Fidelio

9 reviews
Lucia Popp, Gundula Janowitz

Deutsche Grammophon, 2007

BERNSTEIN LEADS A GREAT PERFORMANCE
This performance is far more than the sum of it's parts. Several reviews have found valid things to complain about. Janowitz has not got quite a big enough voice for Leonora, yet she brings a humanity to the role that evaded Flagstad and Nilsson. Benackova has the voice for Leonora, but is not visually credible. Benackova is wonderful as the Bartered Bride. If we accept the concept that ...

The Dvorak Cycle, Vol. 5
Lucia Popp, Eva Randova

Arthaus Musik, 2008

Smetana - The Bartered Bride

5 reviews
Lucia Popp, Siegfried Jerusalem

Deutsche Grammophon, 2007

A superbly performed, exciting Bartered Bride
As soon as conductor Adam Fischer engages the warp engines and shifts the well known overture into hyperdrive, we know we're in for an exciting performance of Bedrich Smetana's masterpiece, The Bartered Bride. As soon as the wonderful Lucia Popp begins lamenting her impending arranged marriage to the son of the rich landowner Micha from the neighboring village, we know that this will also be a ...

Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier / Gwyneth Jones, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp, Manfred Jungwirth, Benno ...

7 reviews
Gwyneth Jones, Brigitte Fassbaender

Philips, 2005

Music from Heaven
Kleiber conducts a brisk performance which flows very nicely with the singing and action going on. The only competition of this DVD is the other one also conducted by Kleiber. The one under review here has Popp as Sophie, Jones as Marschallin, and Fassbaender as Octavian. Jones is on her best behavior here and sings very well. She looks the part and her mannerism is perfect for this role. ...

Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

10 reviews
Lucia Popp, Kurt Moll

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

Munich Zauberflote stands test of time
While many traditional productions of opera these days look sleepy, either on a stage loaded with so much trappings and clutter, and/or looking as though a group of singers got dropped onto stage and left to their own devices, this is truly a most traditional production, in both all its consummate detail and inspired individual touches. A certain degree of realism and social commentary inform ...

Little Drummer Boy: Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein

1 review
Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig

Philips, 2007

Learn at the feet of the master
Wow!--I just finished watching "The Little Drummer Boy." Previously I had thought that I knew quite a bit about Gustav Mahler, but Leonard Bernstein showed me more. What Bernstein does is show you--through biographical commentary and excerpts from Mahler's music--just what it was that made this masterful composer and conductor so obsessed with Life and Death. Yes, part of it was Mahler's ...

Lortzing - Zar und Zimmermann

4 reviews
Lucia Popp, Hans Sotin

Arthaus Musik, 2007

Beautiful Production of a Marvelous German Comic Opera
Albert Lortzing's 'Zar and Zimmermann', written in 1837, is a marvelously constructed comedy of mistaken identities which rises above the usual farcical conventions and provides not only a satisfying plot but some excellent musical characterizations of what otherwise might have been stereotyped roles. In it Czar Peter the Great is working in the shipyards of Saardam (as he actually did in order ...