The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Graceful, dynamic and surprising, Giuliano Carmignola's collaboration with Claudio Abbado and the Orchestra Mozart is a must-have recording.
Anna Netrebko (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Deutsche Grammophon has launched a microsite for the new Manon 2DVD which will be released in August 2008. The cast is leaded by Anna Netrebko in the title role and Rolando Villazón as Chevalier des Grieux. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden. The dvd includes as a 20 min bonus "The Making of Manon".
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
The opera world, always ravenous for talented, charismatic tenors, felt desperate hunger pains last summer, when Rolando Villazón canceled dates with an explanation that a health crisis necessitated a sabbatical from singing.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Claudio Abbado's 2001 performances in Rome with the Berliner Philharmoniker has made it into a boxed-set with a re-edited version of their Berlin recording of No 9.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
In the interview that accompanies this recording of Deryck Cooke's performing edition of Mahler's Tenth Symphony, Daniel Harding bridles at the notion that older conductors have the advantage in this repertoire, most particularly in music written at the end of the composer's life.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
With texts by Petrarch, Heine, Meilhac and Halévy, Hjalmar Söderberg and Edgar Lee Masters, this programme is as revealing of Anne Sofie von Otter's interest in poetry as it is of her musical personality. Anders Hillborg's "...lontana in sonno..." is a soundworld of scudding strings and introspective horns.
Anna Netrebko (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Deutsche Grammophon is planning to release 5 video recordings of Anna Netrebko in Blu-Ray format. The first one to come this August is Massenet 's Manon starring Anna Netrebko in the title role and Rolando Villazón as Chevalier Des Grieux. The 4 other recordings, to be released in September 2009, are Bellini' s I Puritani from the MET, Mozart 's Le Nozze di Figaro from Salzburg, the Berlin concert...
On An Overgrown Path (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
While Deutsche Grammophon brings us " The Gustavo Dudamel album the world has been waiting for" and the NY Times confirms things can get worse at EMI it is left to savy labels like Naxos to challenge and inspire. Released this week is an album that challenges and inspires quite magnificently - the piano music of John Tavener played by Ralph van Raat . If you think Tavener is just 'holy minimalism'...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
"One look at this week's charts and you'd be tempted to think that all is well in the classical dovecote and the doomsayers have got it wrong again. But check the bottom line and the gloom is unconfined. Insiders at Universal, which released [chart-topper Hilary] Hahn on the Deutsche Grammophon label, tell me she is selling no more than 500 CDs a week in the world's biggest market."...
Sounds & Fury (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
When it was announced a few weeks ago that Universal Music Group, owners of the top classical labels Decca and Deutsche Grammophon, was forming a...
Music News (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
AP - Giacomo Puccini, “La Boheme” (Deutsche Grammophon): With at least a dozen recordings of Puccini’s “La Boheme” readily available from Amazon.com, why another? Original post by AP
Prima la musica, poi le parole (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Exciting — Patricia Petibon has signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. I had been wondering where she'd gone, as it's been years since her French Touch and French Baroque Arias were released. Patricia's first DG release will be Amoureuses,...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
BACH "The Art of Fugue" Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Deutsche Grammophon) 3 { star
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Maurizio Pollini's Mozart Concerto series with the Vienna Philharmonic continues with a flawless and buoyant performance of the A major and C minor concertos.
Sounds & Fury (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Yesterday we received a shipment from Amazon containing two items: the new Deutsche Grammophon CD of Hilary Hahn's readings of the Sibelius and Schoenberg violin...
