Blu-Ray & DVD Sale - up to 60% off selected titles
Until 18th December, we are offering up to 60% off selected titles on Blu-Ray & DVD.
Blu-Ray & DVD Sale
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Special offer. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
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Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
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Special offer. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement. — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
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Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
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Special offer. Korngold: Das Wunder der Heliane
Sara Jakubiak (Helene), Brian Jagde (The Stranger), Josef Wagner (The Ruler), Okka von der Damerau (The Messenger), Derek Welton (The Doorman), Burkhard Ulrich (The Blind Judge), Gideon Poppe (The Young Man)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Marc Albrecht, Christof Loy
Marc Albrecht and his orchestra are familiar, so their excellence is no surprise. But the three lead singers are relative unknowns—and their stupendous performances leave you wondering why.... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Jakubiak)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Jagde)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera (20th/21st-century)
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Special offer. Rued Langgaard: Antikrist
Thomas Lehman (Lucifer), Jonas Grundner-Culemann (The Voice of God), Irene Roberts (The Air of Mystery), Valeriia Savinskaia (The Echo of The Air of Mystery), Clemens Bieber (The Mouth Speaking Great Words), Maire Therese Carmack (Despondency), Flurina Stucki (The Great Whore), AJ Glueckert (The...
Visually, the result is outstanding, an almost non-stop use of choreography practically turning the piece into an opera-ballet. Stephan Zilias conducts a memorable performance. — More…
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Opera & Stage Choice
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Special offer. Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
RecommendedLucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
This performance curtails the silences in the interests of the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado’s linear approach...This is Bruckner sunny side up, lending a molto espressivo bloom to the string... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - DVD Performance
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Special offer. Puccini: Il Trittico
RecommendedAsmik Grigorian (Lauretta/Giorgetta/Suor Angelica), Misha Kiria (Schicchi), Karita Mattila (La Zia Principessa), Roman Burdenko (Michele), Joshua Guerrero (Luigi), Alexey Neklyudov (Rinuccio)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst, Christof Loy
[in Suor Angelica] Grigorian holds the stage almost throughout; a performance of heartrending vocal beauty and equally potent vocal characterisation...You might feel Loy pushes it too far but... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th July 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
RecommendedErwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)
…so accomplished a cast, in which Gerald Finley's Count, Miah Persson's Susanna and Rinat Shaham's Cherubino stand out as ideal. — More…
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Building a Library, May 2014, First Choice (DVD)
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - DVD
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New. Handel: Saul
RecommendedChristopher Purves (Saul), Iestyn Davies (David), Lucy Crowe (Merab), Sophie Bevan (Michal), Paul Appleby (Jonathan), Benjamin Hulett (High Priest) & John Graham-Hall (Witch of Endor)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Barrie...
Pivotal is Christopher Purves’s Saul – surely the father-in-law from hell should the Goliath-slaying David choose his daughter Michal (or son Jonathan – tenderly sung by Paul Appleby). Purves... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opera, December 2015, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Archora & Aion
RecommendedIceland Symphony Orchestra, Eva Ollikainen
In effect, both works demonstrate the inseparability of time and space – and their key lies finally in Thorvaldsdottir’s extraordinarily subtle, constantly shifting details of foreground and... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Misha Didyk, Alexey Markov, Vladimir Stoyanov, Svetlana Aksenova, Larissa Diadkova
Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
4It’s certainly wacky. But it’s followed through with rigorous brilliance…musically all is superb; this is the equal of Mariss Jansons’s first-rate Bavarian CD recording, with some of the same... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Opera Choice
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2018, Winner - Jahrespreis
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