Der Ring des Nibelungen
Richard Wagner
Emneord
Anmeldelser (11)
Classics today
d. 17. maj 2005
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David Hurwitz
d. 17. maj 2005
"There simply isn't a weak link in the cast. Lisa Milne sings one hell of a Governess: bewildered, determined, and wounded ... Diana Montague provides an excellent foil to her as Mrs. Grose, and Catrin Wyn Davies makes the most of the juicy but brief role of Miss Jessel ... This DVD strikes me as an almost perfect example of what a good opera for home viewing ought to be, and I can't recommend it more strongly".
The guardian
d. 30. jan. 2021
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Tim Ashley
d. 30. jan. 2021
"One of the many casualties of last year's lockdown was OperaGlass Works' new staging of Britten's The Turn of the Screw ... Determined not to let six weeks of rehearsal go to waste, Cadell and Thompson decided to rework the production as a film ... It's by no means a simple visual record of a staging ... We're privy to the process of filming itself, as we see cameramen tracking the performers, sets being changed, musicians playing ... leaves us wondering whether the ghosts are not only meant to have invaded the opera, but are in some way haunting and controlling its filming as well ... It's superbly performed ... The Sinfonia of London, meanwhile, play wonderfully well for Wilson, who ratchets up the tension while remaining continuously alert to the beauty and terror of Britten's score".
MusicWeb international
2005 May
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Colin Clarke (musikanmelder)
2005 May
"The transference of opera to film can be fraught with difficulty. In worst case scenarios, it can be disastrous. However in the present case, it is a wonderful success ... The scenery is perfectly chosen, showing a world where even when the sun does shine it is not really light ... Having impressed so much in the Prologue, Padmore does not disappoint elsewhere ... Richard Hickox impresses on this occasion more than ever before".
MusicWeb international
2022 January
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Richard Hanlon
2022 January
"Recommended: This is my second favourite Britten opera after Peter Grimes - it embodies a perfect amalgam of formal balance and psychological ambiguity. In musical terms I found this performance to be exceptional. To my ears the six voices and the 14 players involved interact on entirely equal terms. All these musicians seem blessed with an intuitive appreciation of Britten's textural and harmonic sophistication and their inspired communication of this composer's remarkable marriage of clarity, colour and characterisation - the latter as vital for the exposed instrumentalists as it is for the vocalists - arguably renders this the best performed and recorded DVD of the opera to date ... John Wilson's characteristically meticulous preparation is self-evident; his execution of the score ... provides the ideal sonic backcloth for what proved (to my ears, eyes and heart at least) to be a novel and completely absorbing theatrical experience".
Politiken
d. 14. juli 2005
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Michael Bo
d. 14. juli 2005
"Denne udsøgte filmatisering bliver meget bogstavelig, alt for bogstavelig efter min smag. Billederne - dampende fugtige eksteriører såvel som plastiske interiører - er dårende flotte, men ikke lige dramaturgisk velbegrundede ... Men filmen ånder stemning og uhygge. Det er dog dirigenten og sangerne, der er dvd'ens clou".
BBC music magazine
2022 January
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Bayan Northcott
2022 January
"The production by Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson has its puzzles ... But the mounting horror of the piece is effectively conveyed. It is also a strong cast. Robert Murray is as immaculate of diction in the Prologue as he is seductively lyrical as the ghostly Quint. Rhian Lois's every inflection and gesture projects the Governess's barely controlled hysteria ... Wilson conducts 13 members of his Sinfonia of London with needlesharp definition in tempos close to Britten's own classic 1955 recording, and the Chandos recording enhances this haunting opera's eerie fragility of sound".
Diapason
2023 janvier
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Benoît Fauchet
2023 janvier
BBC music magazine
2013 January
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Michael Scott Rohan
2013 January
"Altogether, one of the finest opera performances on DVD. Buy it!".
The gramophone
2021 December
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Edward Seckerson
2021 December
"Editor's choice: The projected run of live performances ... reimagining Britten's masterpiece 'The Turn of the Screw' ... fell foul of Covid and that, one might have imagined, was that. Not a bit of it. Chandos and OperaGlass Works saw their way to salvaging something even more magical from a disastrous situation - and they made this film instead ... with visible stage crew and musicians busily spiriting us through those extraordinary interludes ... The whole performance is so beautifully 'heard' ... Robert Murray is quite marvellous as Quint ... Just as the piece is all shadow and suggestion, so too is this filmic realisation".
International record review
2013 March
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Robert Levine (musikanmelder)
2013 March
"Miah Persson ... is flawless ... Jakub Hrusa lead the London Philharmonic in an instructual, perversely accented, gut-wrenching reading and the 15-or-so instrumentalists are superb ... The true competition on DVD is the film led by Richard Hickox (Opus Arte), but this new one, musically close to perfection, will please most fans og the opera and win many others".
The gramophone
2013 February
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Mike Ashman
2013 February
"So a strong recommendation here for what is, above all, a tight overall cast performance, helpfully filmed by Francois Rousillon and with clear, natural sound for the chamber-size band".