Yvonne Kenny

Yvonne Kenny, Paul Dyer, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - George Frideric Handel: Arias (1998)

Yvonne Kenny, Paul Dyer, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - George Frideric Handel: Arias (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 65:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ABC Classics | # 456 689-2 | Recorded: 1997

Yvonne Kenny has been one of the most impressive of Handel sopranos for so many years now that it has even been possible to take her for granted. The level of tonal beauty, operatic intensity, mastery of divisions, intelligent appreciation and application of ornaments, blending of voices in duets, superior impersonation and acting skills that Kenny has evinced, however, are rare commodities. She first sang Alcina, Sutherland’s famous role, moving on to include Semele and Xerxes, Julius Caesar and Rinaldo amongst others that will be remembered by many. Her performances with ENO are imperishable memories for me.
Erich Kunzeli, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Yvonne Kenny, Bo Skovhus - Lehar: The Merry Widow (2010) [Blu-Ray]

Erich Kunzeli, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Yvonne Kenny, Bo Skovhus - Lehár: The Merry Widow (2010) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 26967 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 157 min | 39,7 Gb
Audio1: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD MA 4.0 / 48 kHz / 2021 kbps / 24-bit

BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 157 min | 8,55 Gb
Audio: English / DTS / 4ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Opus Arte | Sub: French, German, Spanish

Lotfi Mansouri's spectacular last production as General Director of San Francisco Opera with Yvonne Kenny making her debut in the title role, new dialogue specially commissioned from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Wendy Wasserstein, and an original ballet to set the scene Chez Maxim's, bringing fresh insight into Lehár's classic operetta.

Yvonne Kenny - A Christmas Gift (2020)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Dec. 1, 2020
Yvonne Kenny - A Christmas Gift (2020)

Yvonne Kenny - A Christmas Gift (2020)
FLAC tracks | 60:01 | 300 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Australian Broadcasting

A Christmas Gift contains all the beautiful classical music you need for the season, with lots of popular Christmas carols and classical songs on a Christmas theme. Yvonne is joined by the full forces of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, The Contemporary Singers and The Sydney Children's Choir to give a grand and powerfully inspiring sound to all the songs.
Anders Öhrwall, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Stockholm Bach Choir - George Frederick Handel: Messiah (1997)

Anders Öhrwall, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Stockholm Bach Choir - George Frederick Handel: Messiah (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 664 Mb | Total time: 71:03+60:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Smedish Society | SCD 1063-64 | Recorded: 1982

Handel's Messiah is increasingly performed in authentic Baroque style and with period techniques, and this version by conductor Anders Öhrwall, the Stockholm Bach Choir, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra falls in line with the trend. While there is no clear indication that the instruments are anything but modern, the orchestral sound is imbued with a glossy string sound and transparent textures supported by a basso continuo that includes both harpsichord and organ, and the choir's scaled-down size gives it the transparency associated with Baroque choral singing.
Theodor Guschlbauer, Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon - Mozart: Mitridate (2005/1986)

Theodor Guschlbauer, Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon - Mozart: Mitridate (2005/1986)
PAL 4:3 (720x576) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.40 Gb (DVD9) | 152 min
Classical | EuroArts | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais

“Yvonne Kenny was already experienced in the role of Aspasia when this production was filmed in 1986, and here she is musically agile and dramatically compelling. Rockwell Blake is vocally muscular as Mitridate… The American soprano Ashley Putnam was simply an inspired choice for the… trouser-role of Sifare, and the rest of the cast is good. The direction is fluid…” BBC Music Magazine
Nicholas Kok, Orchestra of the English National Opera - Purcell: The Fairy Queen (2001/1995)

Nicholas Kok, Orchestra of the English National Opera - Purcell: The Fairy Queen (2001/1995)
PAL 16:9 (720x576) VBR | English (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 6.94 Gb (DVD9) | 134 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: Francais, Deutsch, Espanol

The new production of Purcell's The Fairy Queen launched in 1995 by the English National Opera (ENO) was received with great enthusiasm by both the public and musical press. This atmospheric production was prepared by David Pountney, Robert Israel created the stage set, Dunya Ramicova was responsible for costume design and Quinny Sacks was responsible for the choreography of the dance roles as well as the numerous breathtaking ballet scenes. Under the musical direction of Nicholas Kok, the English National Orchestra played a baroque music which was as crystal clear as it was expressively infectious.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (2006/1986)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (2006/1986)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.5 Gb (DVD9) | 124 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Filmed and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle in the unique interiors of Vicenza's Teatro Olimpico in 1986, this DVD offers an intimate glimpse of Mozart's first major opera, written when the precocious composer was just fourteen. Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads a stellar cast in portraying the inner circle of the Roman Empire's fiercest enemy: Mithridates, king of Pontus.
Robert King, The King’s Consort, New College Choir, Oxford - George Frideric Handel: Deborah (1993)

Robert King, The King’s Consort, New College Choir, Oxford - George Frideric Handel: Deborah (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 678 Mb | Total time: 138:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66841/2 | Recorded: 1993

‘Deborah contains some of the most glorious music Handel ever wrote. Even if many of the numbers have been recycled from earlier works, the invention is still staggering. Handel devotees can thus amuse themselves spotting the tunes while everyone else can revel in the sumptuous scoring and the sheer vitality and humanity of the piece, all superbly conveyed in Robert King's recording’.
David Parry, Philharmonia Orchestra - Mayr: Medea in Corinto (1994)

David Parry, Philharmonia Orchestra - Mayr: Medea in Corinto (1994)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.31 Gb | Total time: 65:37+73:39+58:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opera Rara | ORC 11 | Recorded: 1993

Giovanni Mayr is known today primarily as the teacher of Donizetti, but in the very late 1700s and first two decades of the 1800s, this German-born, Italian-by-adoption composer was all the operatic rage, combining the fiorature and niceties of Italian vocal writing with a German penchant for orchestration (Medea’s opening aria has a violin obbligato of the type that you simply do not find with the Italians, for instance). Medea in Corinto is considered Mayr’s masterpiece; in fact, it’s a long score, not quite as poweful as Cherubini’s, but with plenty of flavor of its own.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Johann Sebastian Bach: Jagdkantate; Bauernkantate (1990)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Johann Sebastian Bach: Jagdkantate; Bauernkantate (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 325 Mb | Total time: 64:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 2292 46151-2 | Recorded: 1988

Harnoncourt tops off the complete Das Alte Werk set of Bach's church cantatas with admirably ebullient accounts of (these two) secular cantatas…the exuberance of the performance carries over into Harnoncourt's accompaniments - no scholarly rectitiude here - and the recording is first rate.