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Verdi: Aida RecommendedLeontyne Price (Aida), Jon Vickers (Radamès), Rita Gorr (Amneris), Robert Merrill (Amonasro), Plinio Clabassi (Il Re di Egitto), Giorgio Tozzi (Ramfis), Franco Ricciardi (Un Messaggero), Mietta Sighiele (Una Sacerdotessa)
Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sir Georg Solti
Solti motivates his account of Verdi's score with thrilling dynamism, fully displaying the music's grandeur and depth as well as deriving considerable refinement from his Roman forces. His cast... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Opera Recording
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedJon Vickers (Enée), Josephine Veasey (Didon), Berit Lindholm (Cassandre), Peter Glossop (Chorèbe, Le spectre de Chorèbe), Pierre Thau (Priam, Un soldat troyen, Mercure), Anthony Raffell (Panthée), David Lennox (Helenus), Anne Howells (Ascagne), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Hécube, Le spectre de Cassandre),...
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Grammy Awards, 13th Awards (1970), Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 13th Awards (1970), Classical Album of the Year
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Wagner: Parsifal
Jon Vickers (Parsifal), Hans Hotter (Gurnemanz), Thomas Stewart (Amfortas), Gustav Neidlinger (Klingsor), Barbro Ericson (Kundry), Heinz Hagenau (Titurel), Anja Silja, Dorothea Siebert, Liselotte Rebmann, Rita Bartos, Else-Margrete Gardelli, Sylvia Lindenstrand (flower maidens) & Ruth Hesse (voice...
The (to date) 11 released recordings of Hans Knappertsbusch's Parsifal performances at Bayreuth between 1951 and 1964 constitute a unique record of one conductor's work on a favoured score in... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
4 CDs
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
RecommendedChrista Ludwig (Leonore), Jon Vickers (Florestan), Walter Berry (Don Pizarro), Gottlob Frick (Rocco), Ingeborg Hallstein (Marzelline), Gerhard Unger (Jaquino), Franz Crass (Don Fernando)
Philharmonia Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
Whilst I love the dramatic energy of Karajan’s (thrilling but rough-round-the-edges) 1962 Fidelio, Ludwig sounds more secure in terms of diction and intonation on this studio recording from the... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
2 CDs
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Wagner: Die Walküre Jon Vickers (tenor), George London (baritone), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Marie Collier (soprano), Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano), Gré Brouwenstijn (soprano), David Ward (bass), Rita Gorr (mezzo-soprano), Noreen Berry (mezzo-soprano), Maureen Guy (mezzo-soprano), Judith Pierce (soprano), Margreta...
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Wagner: Highlights from The Ring Helen Donath (Woglinde), Edda Moser (Wellgunde), Anna Reynolds (Flosshilde), Donald Grobe (Froh), Gundula Janowitz (Sieglinde), Helga Dernesch (Brünnhilde), Jess Thomas (Siegfried), Thomas Stewart (Wotan)
Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version
Jon Vickers (Don Carlo), Gre Brouwenstijn (Elisabetta di Valois), Tito Gobbi (Rodrigo), Fedora Barbieri (La Principessa Eboli), Boris Christoff (Filippo II), Michael Langdon (Il Grande Inquisitore)
The Covent Garden Orchestra and Opera Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Kurt Wehofschitz (tenor), Gerhard Unger (tenor), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Ingeborg Hallstein (soprano), Raymond Wolansky (baritone), Jon Vickers (tenor), Franz Crass (bass)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Otto Klemperer
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Britten: Peter Grimes RecommendedJon Vickers (Grimes), Heather Harper (Ellen), Jonathan Summers (Balstrode), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Auntie), Forbes Robinson (Swallow), Patricia Payne (Mrs Sedley), Thomas Allen (Ned Keene), Richard Van Allan (Hobson)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis
the cast is fine and the tension cumulative — More…
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Grammy Awards, 22nd Awards (1979), Best Opera Recording
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