BBC Music Magazine have awarded maestro Karina Canellakis’ recording of Bartók: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle the highest rating of five stars and selected it as their Opera Choice in the June issue.
Standout quotes include:“A blood-curdling and brilliant Bartók Bluebeard”, “Detailed and powerful: Karina Canellakis and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic put on a terrific, and terrifying show” and “Karina Canellakis conducts the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic if her life depends on it”
Karina conducts Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Rinat Shaham and Gábor Bretz in Bartók’s only opera, which she describes as “an homage to life itself, to life’s brevity and fleeting beauty, to being human, to love, and to death.”.
Read the full review in the June issue of BBC Music Magazine now.
