Joseph Haydn: Te Deum C-Dur Hob. XXIIIc:2
Franz Schubert: Messe Nr. 2 in G-Dur D 167
Richard Strauss: Aus Italien, op.16

Siobhan Stagg, Soprano
Julian Prégardien, Tenor
Vito Priante, Bassbaritone
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Riccardo Muti, Conductor

Handel, Georg Friedrich: Jephta

Jeremy Ovenden, Jephtha
Sophie Harmsen, Storgé
Déborah Cachet, Iphis
Tim Mead, Hamor
Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Zebul
Soprano from the Choeur de Namur, Angel

Les Talens Lyriques
Chœur de Chambre de Namur
Christophe Rousset, Director
Thibaut Lenaerts, Choirmaster

Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Andreas Schager, Siegfried
Joachim Goltz, Gunther
KS Thomas de Vries, Alberich
Albert Pesendorfer, Hagen
Manuela Uhl, Brünnhilde
Betsy Horne, Gutrune / Dritte Norn
Katrin Wundsam, Waltraute / Erste Norn
Silvia Hauer, Floßhilde / Zweite Norn
Anastasiya Taratorkina, Woglinde
Fleuranne Brockway, Wellgunde

Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden
Chor, Extrachor & Statisterie des Hessischen Staatstheaters Wiesbaden

Michael Güttler, conductor
Uwe Eric Laufenberg, director
Gisbert Jäkel, stage designer
Antje Sternberg, costume designer
Andreas Frank, lighting designer
Falko Sternberg, video
Albert Horne, chorus master
Katja Leclerc, dramaturgy

Josef Haydn : Die Jahreszeiten, Hob. XXI

María Espada, Soprano
Werner Güra, Tenor
Birger Radde, Bass

Orfeón Pamplonés
Perry So, Conductor

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Georg Zeppenfeld, Hans Sachs, Schuster
Günther Groissböck, Veit Pogner, Goldschmied
Wolfgang Koch, Sixtus Beckmesser, Schreiber
Martin Häßler, Fritz Kothner, Bäcker
David Butt Philip, Walther von Stolzing, ein junger Ritter aus Franken
Michael Laurenz, David, Sachsens Lehrbube
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Eva, Pogners Tochter
Christina Bock, Magdalene, Evas Amme
Nikita Ivasechko, Hermann Ortel

Philippe Jordan, Musical Director
Keith Warner, Director
Boris Kudlička, Staging
Kaspar Glarner, Costumes
John Bishop, Lighting
Akhila Krishnan, Video
Karl Alfred Schreiner, Choreography
Katharina Kastening, Production

Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin op. 25, D 795

Florian Boesch, bass-baritone
Musikbanda Franui

Joseph Haydn: Te Deum C-Dur Hob. XXIIIc:2
Franz Schubert: Messe Nr. 2 in G-Dur D 167
Richard Strauss: Aus Italien, op.16

Siobhan Stagg, Soprano
Julian Prégardien, Tenor
Vito Priante, Bassbaritone
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Riccardo Muti, Conductor

Jules Massenet: Manon

Elbenita Kajtazi, Manon Lescaut
Pene Pati, Der Chevalier Des Grieux
Kartal Karagedik, Lescaut
Tigran Martirossian, Der Graf Des Grieux
Daniel Kluge, Guillot-Morfontaine
Alexey Bogdanchikov, von Brétigny
Narea Son, Poussette
Kady Evanyshyn, Javotte
Ida Aldrian, Rosette
David Minseok Kang, Der Wirt
Aaron Godfrey-Mayes, Gardist 1
Grzegorz Pelutis, Gardist 2

Giedré Šlekyté, Musical direction
David Bösch, Director
Patrick Bannwart, Sets
Falko Herold, Costumes
Michael Bauer, Lighting
Detlef Giese, Dramaturgy
Eberhard Friedrich, Chorus Master

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper

Thomas Quasthoff, recitation
Lea Hausmann, violin
Samuel Shepherd, cello
Mengjie Han, piano

History often reduces wars to a collection of statistics. It is easy to forget that behind every number, every flag, every battle, there is a person who is someone's child, parent, spouse, or lover. During World War I, pen and paper was often all that many had to keep in touch with their far-flung loved ones.

Based on these field letters, of which an incredible 30 billion were sent on the German side alone, Quasthoff and the Amatis Trio trace the humanity in wartime and the personal struggle of the people behind the statistics.

Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin op. 25, D 795

Florian Boesch, bass-baritone
Musikbanda Franui