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Wagner: Götterdämmerung RecommendedBirgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Gottlob Frick (Hagen), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Gunther), Claire Watson (Gutrune), Christa Ludwig (Waltraute)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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Strauss, R: Die Frau ohne Schatten RecommendedHildegard Behrens (Die Färberin), Julia Varady (Die Kaiserin), Plácido Domingo (Der Kaiser), José van Dam (Barak), Reinhild Runkel (Die Amme), Sumi Jo (Stimme des Falken)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti
This was the most ambitious project on which Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal collaborated. It's both fairy tale and allegory with a score that's Wagnerian in its scale and breadth.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Opera
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Grammy Awards, 35th Awards (1992), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 35th Awards (1992), Best Opera Recording
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Wagner: Das Rheingold George London (Wotan), Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka), Claire Watson (Freia), Set Svanholm (Loge), Waldemar Kmentt (Froh), Eberhard Wächter (Donner), Paul Kuen (Mime), Jean Madeira (Erda), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Walter Kreppel (Fasolt), Kurt Böhme (Fafner)
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I’m in no doubt that the sound quality is significantly better than Decca have been able to achieve on previous issues of this recording. There’s only one word for it: stunning. You really have... — More…
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Overture Les francs-juges RecommendedChicago Symphony Chorus (chorus)
Sir Georg Solti
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Classical Album of the Year
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Wagner: Die Walküre Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Hans Hotter (Wotan), Régine Crespin (Sieglinde), James King (Siegmund), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Gottlob Frick (Hunding)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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A sizzling account of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances is the centrepiece here. Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture is equally electrifying, yet there is tenderness, too, in Musorgsky's Khovanshchina... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Wagner: Siegfried Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Gerhard Stolze (Mime), Hans Hotter (Wanderer), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Marga Höffgen (Erda), Kurt Böhme (Fafner), Dame Joan Sutherland (Waldvogel), Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen RecommendedDas Rheingold
George London (Wotan), Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka), Claire Watson (Freia), Set Svanholm (Loge), Waldemar Kmentt (Froh), Eberhard Wächter (Donner), Paul Kuen (Mime), Jean Madeira (Erda), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Walter Kreppel (Fasolt), Kurt Böhme (Fafner),...
a living, convincing, whole, holistic and vibrant experience is just what this edition delivers...it faithfully reflects the spaciousness and appropriate aura that would have been experienced... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 9th Awards (1966), Best Opera Recording
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Verdi: La Traviata RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Violetta), Frank Lopardo (Alfredo), Leo Nucci (Giorgio Germont), Leah-Marian Jones (Flora), Gillian Knight (Annina), Robin Leggate (Gastone), Mark Beesley (Dottore Grenvil), Richard Van Allan (Baron Douphol), Roderick Earle (Marchese d'Obigny)
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For Angela Gheorghiu, Violetta was the right role at the right time. The whole drama is there in her voice, every expression in the eyes and beat of the heart reflected in the way she shapes... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Wagner: Tannhäuser RecommendedRené Kollo (Tannhauser), Helga Dernesch (Elisabeth), Christa Ludwig (Venus), Victor Braun (Wolfram), Manfred Jungwirth (Biterolf), Hans Sotin (Hermann), Kurt Equiluz (Heinrich), Norman Bailey (Reinmar)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
One of the most satisfying of Georg Solti’s Wagner recordings. Christa Ludwig is a seductive Venus in this, the Paris version, Helga Dernesch a sweet-toned Elisabeth, though René Kollo isn’t... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2003, First Choice on CD (Paris version)
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