HANS PFITZNER
Pfitzner: Palestrina (complete opera) Christopher Ventris / Peter Rose / Michael Volle / Falk Struckmann / Christiana Karg / Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Simone Young [ Euroarts DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/Jun/2010 ] "Simone Young directs a flowing and nicely paced account. Christopher Ventris is sensitive, achieving exhausted nobility as the composer, and Falk Struckmann provides a rounded portrayal of the subtle Borromeo." (Gramophone) |
JOHN CORIGLIANO / WILLIAM HOFFMAN
The Ghosts of Versailles Victoria Livengood, So Young Park, Vanessa Becerra, Peabody Southwell, Frederick Ballentine, Patti LuPone / LA Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Conlon [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to celebrate its 100th anniversary, John Corigliano's The Ghost of Versailles received its premiere at the Met in 1991, twelve years after it had been commissioned and eight years past the centennial season for... |
Young@Heart Chorus
Young@Heart - Original Soundtrack + Mostly Live [ Rhino Records / 2 CD - released 3/Nov/2008 ] Both discs in this set feature songs by the Young@Heart Chorus, the New England area senior citizens (ages 73-93) group celebrated worldwide for their spirited choral interpretations of rock, punk, and R&B classics. |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Le Due Duchesse (complete opera) Young -Jun Ahn, Jaegyeong Jo, Eun-Hye Choi, Markus Scafer, Jorg Lindemann / Bavarian State Opera Chorus, Concerto de Bassus, Franz Hauk [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 1/May/2020 ] As one of the leading operatic composers of his generation, Johann Simon Mayr nurtured a fascination with the chivalric stories of medieval England. Le due duchesse, an opera semiseria with buffa elements, is set during the reign of the 10th-century... |