HECTOR BERLIOZ
Fantastique Berlioz [3 CD set] Simon Rattle, Renaud Capuçon, .Leonard Bernstein, Kent Nagano, Joyce DiDonato, Riccardo Muti, John Barbirolli, Louis Fremaux, Janet Baker, etc [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] Hector Berlioz, France's greatest Romantic composer, exemplifies the spirit of his age - yet his genius was also ahead of its time. Reflecting his colourful life, his music is astonishing for its originality and ambition, and for orchestration of... |
HONEGGER / IBERT
L'Aiglon (operetta recorded March 2015) Anne-Catherine Gillet, Étienne Dupuis, Marc Barrard, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, etc /Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 11/May/2016 ] "Marc Barrard is the touchingly funny Flambeau, while Etienne Dupuis makes Metternich all the more sinister by singing his music so beautifully. The orchestral sound is gorgeous, as is the recording itself" (Gramophone, April 2016) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Double Concerto / Young Apollo / Two Portraits / Sinfonietta Yuri Bashmet (viola) Gidon Kremer (violin) Nikolai Lugansky (piano) / Halle Orchestra, Kent Nagano [ Erato / CD - released 19/Aug/1999 ] Recording made in association with the Britten Estate Limited. Double Concerto and Two Portraits are world premiere recordings. |
Corey Kent
Black Bandana [ RCA Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2024 ] Co-writing six of Black Bandana's 10 songs, what Kent ultimately wanted was to mix themes of integrity, resilience and family with a sonic setting befitting the mission. Finding the midway point between cinematic electric guitars and heart-pounding... |
JOHN ADAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Adams: Violin Concerto / Shaker Loops Gidon Kremer (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano, Orchestra of St. Luke's, John Adams [ Nonesuch / CD - released 1/Oct/2019 ] "Kremer plays the concerto like he can't wait to get to the next phrase. "Committed" just begins to describe his playing. His tone - which in the past I've found nervous and a bit steely - warms up considerably for Adams." ClassicalNet |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Owen Wingrave (complete opera recorded in 2001) Kent Nagano / Gerald Finley / Peter Savidge / Hilton Marlton / Josephine Barstow / Anne Dawson / Elizabeth Gale / Charlotte Hellekant / Martyn Hill / [ Arthaus Musik / Kultur / DVD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] G - GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE RECORDING OF THE YEAR FINALIST 2004: DVD |
TOSHIO HOSOKAWA
Toshio Hosokawa: Stilles Meer (Silent Sea) [Complete opera recorded in 2016] Hamburg State Opera / Susanne Elmar, Mihoko Fujimura, Bejun Mehta, Viktor Rud, Marek Gasztecki / Kent Nagano (cond) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2017 ] Statement by Toshio Hosokawa: My fourth opera, Stilles Meer, was commissioned by the Hamburg State Opera. The text on which the work is based was written by Oriza Hirata, and the resulting libretto by Hannah Dübgen - who was also the librettist for... |
PUCCINI / MOZART / WAGNER / SCHUMANN / HOLST / LEGRAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Best of Kiri te Kanawa Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) / Lyon Opera Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano, Roger Vignoles (piano) Alan Titus (baritone) [ Erato / CD - released 10/Oct/1999 ] Though she rarely sang opera later in her career, Te Kanawa frequently performed in concert and recital, gave masterclasses, and supported young opera singers in launching their careers. Her final performance was in Ballarat, Australia, in 2016. |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq D'or (complete opera recorded 2002) Orchestre de Paris & Chorus of The Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / Albert Schagidullin, Ilya Levinsky, Andrei Breus / Kent Nagano (cond) [ Arthaus Musik BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2012 ] This Châtelet revival of Le Coq d'Or brings to the stage once again the great Kabuki actor Ennosuke III's striking staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera first mounted in co-production with the San Francisco Opera in 1984. |
HANS WERNER HENZE
Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids Salzburg Festival / Sean Panikkar, Russell Braun, Willard White, Nikolai Schukoff / Vienna Philharmonic, Kent Nagano [ Arthaus Musik DVD / 2 DVD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] The opera, inspired by Euripides' tragedy The Bacchae, is as seductive as it is topical: When Dionysus - is he a charlatan? is he a demigod? - bursts into the intact world of ancient Thebes, he plunges a city into chaos. In stark contrast to his... |