DVD (November 18, 2016)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Sony Music Entertainment Germany
ASIN: B01L2ZSHD8
Outstanding also the Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni as well as the Staatskapelle Dresden and the choir of the Saxon Staatsoper under Donald Runnicles.
Dan Ettinger conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this performance of Mozart's comic opera recorded at the Salzburg Festival in August 2015. Adam Plachetka performs as Figaro alongside Martina Janková as Susanna, Anett Fritsch as Contessa Almaviva and Luca Pisaroni as Conte Almaviva.
“Nothing else that he wrote is as all-encompassing as the Mass in B minor, not even the great Passions,” says Herbert Blomstedt about Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Opus summum”. The Dresdner Kammerchor and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under the musical direction of Herbert Blomstedt have merged ingeniously to conclude the Bachfest Leipzig with this unrivaled work - a work that bears close connections to choir and orchestra, as well as to Herbert Blomstedt himself.
