Schönberg - Moses und Aron - Grundheber, Moser, Raimondi - GattiFranz Grundheber, Thomas Moser, Idiko Raimondi, Janina Baechle, Peter Jelosits
Cond. Daniele Gatti, directed by Reto Nickler
Live Recording from the Vienna State Opera 2006.
Opera Today, James L. Zychowicz, June 2008: While a number of fine recordings of Moses und Aron exist, this unique DVD of the opera makes a staging of the work accessible, with a variety of camera angle, including a judicious mixture of close-ups and longer shots of the stage. The recording is all the more remarkable for its origins in a live performance, since audience sounds are almost negligible in the DVD. It is an exemplary presentation that merits attention for conveying the opera well. With the stage details intact, and the wide-angle shots planned to make the best use of the stagecraft, the Nickler production, prepared for television by Claus Viller, is a fine example of filmed opera. The sound is quite fine and brings across the nuanced direction of Daniele Gatti, whose efforts join the ranks of other fine interpreters of this work, including Pierre Boulez and Georg Solti.
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