Below is a list of all classical DVD titles released in the last 120 days.
JACK HEGGIE
Heggie: Great Scott (complete opera recorded in 2015) Dallas Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Ailyn Perez, Frederica von Stade, Anthony Roth Costanzo / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] WQXR, the USA's leading classical music radio station, welcomed as a "deeply moving and musically brilliant work" that "should enter the standard repertory just as Heggie's two previous masterpieces - Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick - already have". |
CHAYA CZERNOWIN
Heart Chamber Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Noa Frenkel (alto), Terry Wey (countertenor), Dietrich Henschel (baritone), Ensemble Nikel, SWR Experimentalstudio Orchestra [ Naxos / DVD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] The works of award-winning composer Chaya Czernowin have been performed worldwide at significant new music festivals and prestigious venues, and she is the first woman to be appointed composition professor at Harvard University. Commissioned by... |
CHAYA CZERNOWIN
Heart Chamber (Blu-ray) Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Noa Frenkel (alto), Terry Wey (countertenor), Dietrich Henschel (baritone), Ensemble Nikel, SWR Experimentalstudio Orchestra [ Naxos / DVD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] The works of award-winning composer Chaya Czernowin have been performed worldwide at significant new music festivals and prestigious venues, and she is the first woman to be appointed composition professor at Harvard University. Commissioned by... |
STRAUSS FAMILY / etc
New Year's Concert in Vienna 2021 Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 12/Feb/2021 ] "This is a concert that grows to greatness…Never has a programme built to its own private apotheosis as surely as this, with lofty yet almost unbearably moving accounts of the Emperor Waltz and the Blue Danube itself," Gramophone |
PUCCINI / BELLINI / VERDI / DONIZETTI / HANDEL / OFFENBACH
Joan Sutherland Live at the Sydney Opera House 1983 & 1985 Dame Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn Horne / The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ ABC Opera Australia DVD / 2 DVD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] This double DVD restores to the catalogue two landmark events, and performances never to be forgotten. |