Independence and boldness from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Joonas Ahonen in Gstaad

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Kosmos Beethoven – Schönberg, Beethoven, Webern: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Joonas Ahonen (piano), Gstaad Digital Festival, broadcast live from Église de Saanen, Saanen, Gstaad, 15.8.2020. (CS)

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (c) Marco Borggreve

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Glories of the Baroque: the AAM at London’s VOCES8 Centre

United KingdomUnited Kingdom VOCES8 Live from London: Academy of Ancient Music / Richard Egarr (harpsichord) with Bojan Čičić, James Toll (violins); Leo Duarte (oboe); Sarah McMahon, Joseph Crouch (cellos). VOCES8 Centre, London, 15.8.2020. (CC)

Academy of Ancient Music

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Cow-pig at the New York Stock Exchange: Castorf’s Götterdämmerung on DG Stage from Bayreuth

GermanyGermany Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Marek Janowski (conductor). 2016 performance from the Bayreuth Festspielhaus and reviewed when streamed for 48 hours on DG Stage. (CC)

2016’s Bayreuth Festival’s Götterdämmerung (c) Enrico Nawrath

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Animatronic Crocodiles, Furs and M(m)ime: Castorf’s Siegfried revisited on DG Stage

GermanyGermany Wagner, Siegfried: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra / Marek Janowski (conductor). 2016 performance from the Bayreuth Festspielhaus and reviewed when streamed for 48 hours on DG Stage. (CC)

Stefan Vinke (Siegfried) & Andreas Conrad (Mime) (c) Enrico Nawrath

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Intensity, drama and passion from Gabetta and Melnikov at Kosmos Beethoven in Gstaad

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Kosmos Beethoven – Beethoven, Ries: Sol Gabetta (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Gstaad Digital Festival, broadcast live from Église de Saanen, Saanen, Gstaad, 9.8.2020. (CS)

Sol Gabetta (c) Julia Wesely

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The opportunity to see and hear Connolly’s Fricka and Ventris’s Siegmund in Castorf’s Die Walküre is unmissable

GermanyGermany Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra / Marek Janowski (conductor). 2016 performance from the Bayreuth Festspielhaus and reviewed when streamed on DG Stage. (CC)

Frank Castorf’s Die Walküre (c) Enrico Nawrath

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Aspen Music Festival: Jackiw and Denk find beauty in Ives sonatas

United StatesUnited States Aspen Music Festival – Ives: Stefan Jackiw (violin), Jeremy Denk (piano), presented virtually by Aspen Music Festival, streaming from Steinway Hall, New York, 9.8.2020. (HS)

Stefan Jackiw (violin), & Jeremy Denk (piano)

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Schenk and Schneider-Siemssen’s Met Parsifal allowed a timeless tale to wend in its way towards redemptive transcendence

United StatesUnited States Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of The Metropolitan Opera, New York / James Levine (conductor). Performance of 28.3.1992 reviewed as a Nightly Met Opera Stream in 8.8.2020. (JPr)

Kurt Moll (Gurnemanz), Waltraud Meier (Kundry) & Siegfried Jerusalem (Parsifal)

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