Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Kent Nagano – Bernstein: A Quiet Place (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:33:04 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Why yes, it is still possible to discover Bernstein scores, or in this case the chamber version of A Quiet Place, adapted by Garth Edwin Sunderland, conducted and recorded for the first time by Kent Nagano, at the Montreal Symphony House. The final stage score by the American composer, first performed at the Houston Grand Opera in 1983, it was revisited by the librettist Stephen Wadsworth, and the composer who added several fragments from the one-act piece Trouble in Tahiti, from 1951; this addition would see two new performances (the Scala in Milan, and Washington). Another draft – this one definitive – was performed at the Vienna Opera House, conducted by the composer, in 1986. Fascinating in more ways than one, rather like a modern-day Intermezzo by Strauss, the work depicts American society by way of an existential crisis faced, first by one couple, (Trouble in Tahiti) and then by one family. Bernstein borrowed from Mahler for the structure, with a final movement whose “grave nobility” recalled the final movements of the Third and NinthSymphonies by his much-admired forebear. As is often the case with this composer, Bernstein’s mix of styles (jazz, chorale, Broadway, Mahler, Berg, Britten, Copland…) provides an explosive cocktail, which has about it more of a musical conversation than grand opera – and, paradoxically, that’s what makes this work so unique… And so charming. This is well worth a re-discovery, this time under the baton of Bernstein’s faithful former pupil, Kent Nagano, at the head of top-flight solo singers, who point the way to that “quiet place”, where “love will teach us harmony and grace”. – Franck Mallet
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Release Date: 2012
Genre: Classsical, Opera
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Actors:
John Mark Ainsley – Idomeneo
Pavol Breslik – Idamante
Juliane Banse – Ilia
Annette Dasch – Elettra
Rainer Trost – Arbace
Guy de Mey – Gran Sacerdote di Nettuno
Steven Humes – La Voce
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor Der Bayerischen Staatsoper
Production/Label: EuroArts
Duration: 02:54:09 + 00:10:20
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: PCM, DTS
Video: MPEG-2 Video / 24978 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9
Audio # 1: Italian / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio # 2: Italian / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3993 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio # 2: Italian / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3993 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish
Size: 42,83 GB
With this wonderful production, Mozart’s “Munich” opera returns to the place where it was first performed in 1781, the lovingly restored Cuvilliés Theatre, a veritable jewel of Rococo architecture. In Dieter Dorn’s production, the characters are real people of flesh and blood, their emotions and conflicts intelligible to every member of the audience. The fantastic cast includes some of the finest Mozart singers of our day, headed by the British tenor John Mark Ainsley in the title role, while Kent Nagano in the orchestra pit appears to unleash an elemental force of nature.
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Release Date: 2012
Genre: Classsical, Opera
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Directors: Karina Fibich, Dmitri Tcherniakov
Actors: Klaus Florian Vogt, John Daszak, Anatoli Kotscherga, Paata Burchuladze, Valeri Alexejev
Production/Label: EuroArts
Duration: 02:53:20 + 00:12:01
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: PCM, DTS
Video: MPEG-2 Video / 24978 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9
Audio # 1: Russian / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio # 2: Russian / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3573 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish
Size: 20,3 GB
Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by Mussorgsky’s lesser-known stage work Khovanshschina, leading the Bayerisches Staatsorchester and soloists to work with subtle intensity and generous shaping. Top-notch cast members like Doris Soffel, Anatoly Kotscherga, Florian Vogt, John Daszak, and Paata Burchuladze give charismatic performances that lead the listener to question the exclusion of this work from today’s performance repertoire. Stripped down staging and historic costuming by Dmitri Tcherniakov are brought to glittering life by Blu-Ray picture.
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Honegger & Ibert – L’Aiglon – Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Kent Nagano (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:32:16 minutes | 1,57 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: highresaudio.com | Digital Booklet | © Decca
Kent Nagano leads the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal on this live performance of the obscure five act play L’Aiglon by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert. Recorded at the North American premiere in March 2015 amid the wonderful acoustics of the orchestra’s home, la maison symphonique in Montréal, the OSM is joined by acclaimed soloists including soprano Anne-Catherine Gillet singing the title role and baritones Marc Barrard and Étienne Dupuis.
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