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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (Highlights) Fritz Wunderlich (Tamino), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Papageno), Roberta Peters (Königin der Nacht), Hans Hotter (Sprecher), Evelyn Lear (Pamina), Franz Crass (Sarastro), Friedrich Lenz (Monostatos), Lisa Otto (Papagena), James King (1er Geharnischter), Martti Talvela (2er Geharnischter), Hildegard...
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Nicolai Gedda (Tamino), Gundula Janowitz (Pamina), Walter Berry (Papageno), Lucia Popp (Königin der Nacht), Gottlob Frick (Sarastro), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Marga Höffgen (Drei Damen), Ruth-Margret Pütz (Papagena), Gerhard Unger (Monostatos), Karl Liebl, Franz Crass (Zwei Geharnischten),...
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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... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedJames King (Parsifal), Gwyneth Jones (Kundry), Thomas Stewart (Amfortas), Franz Crass (Gurnemanz), Donald McIntyre (Klingsor), Karl Ridderbusch (Titurel)
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Pierre Boulez
Boulez refuses to wallow, but there's no lack of depth or profundity. He is aided by some fine singers...A fabulous, luminous recording of Wagner's final opera. — More…
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Handel: Messiah (highlights) Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Marga Höffgen (Contralto), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Franz Crass (bass)
Münchener Bach-Chor, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
RecommendedWolfgang Windgassen (Tannhäuser), Victoria de los Angeles (Elisabeth), Grace Bumbry (Venus), Josef Greindl (Landgraf), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Wolfram), Gerhard Stolze (Walther), Franz Crass (Biterolf), Gerhard Paskuda (Heinrich), Theo Adam (Reinmar)
Orchesta of the Bayreuth Festival, Wolfgang...
Bumbry's über-sensuous Venus [is] a feline Carmen transported to the Horselborg...This performance is all the more treasurable because it is the first of de Los Angeles’s three Wagner roles…to... — More…
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Great Wagner Voices
Ingrid Bjoner (soprano), Elisabeth Grümmer (soprano), Martina Arroyo (soprano), Rudolf Schock (tenor), Anja Silja (soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Theo Adam (bass-baritone), Josef Greindl (bass), Franz Crass (bass), Catarina Ligendza (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Arnold Quennet, Kurt...
The ‘Great Singers Live’ series from BR Klassik...has been nothing short of remarkable...This latest release offers some stunning singing and remains one of the most enthralling discs I have... — More…
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Agnes Giebel (soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Hermann Prey (baritone) & Franz Crass (bass)
New Philharmonia Orchestra & BBC Chorus, Otto Klemperer
A truly great performance, a grand design superbly realised from start to finish. The recording gives marvellous clarity to the beauty of the playing of the New Philharmonia Orchestra and the... — More…
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Beethoven - Fidelio
Christa Ludwig (Leonore), Jon Vickers (Florestan), Gottlieb Frick (Rocco), Walter Berry (Pizarro), Gerhard Unger (Jaquino), Franz Crass (Fernando), Ingeborg Hallstein (Marzelline), Kurt Wehofschitz (First Prisoner), Raymond Wolansky (Second Prisoner)
Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Otto...
Klemperer had a close affinity to Beethoven's only completed opera, a tricky work to perform. This, his 1962 recording...is typically statuesque and majestic. Christa Ludwig, a mezzo rather... — More…
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