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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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Shostakovich - Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Yakov Kreizberg
From the very outset, there's a real sense of urgency about the performance, Müller-Schott's razor-sharp articulation in the outer movements managing to combine rhythmic incisiveness with highly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, Disc of the month
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…possibly the most compelling recorded performance of Max Reger's only surviving piano concerto… The performance marries drama with poetry in an ideal proportions: Erdmann's timing is just about... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos & Choral Fantasy
Rudolf Serkin (piano), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik
Serkin was never interested in ingratiating himself through honeyed phrases or silken tone. Instead in these interpretations there is musical purpose and intellectual rigour in every detail...All... — More…
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Michael Gielen Conducts Szymanowski & Penderecki
Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Elena Moșuc (soprano), Annette Markert, Anton Scharinger, Chorus Sine Nomine, Ewa Izykowska, Zachos Terzakis, Stephen Roberts, Wiener Konzertchor, Michael Gielen
The Dies Irae is so powerful – one of the most frighteningly powerful recordings I've heard, and impossible to be ambivalent about. — More…
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
George London (Dutchman), Josef Greindl (Daland), Leonie Rysanek (Senta), Fritz Uhl (Erik), Res Fischer (Mary), Georg Paskuda (Steuermann)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Sawallisch
A blistering mono performance live from Bayreuth. Wolfgang Sawallisch takes no musical prisoners as Leonie Rysanek tears through Senta, all but incinerating George London’s Dutchman. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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Dvořák: The King and the Charcoal Burner (Král a Uhlír)
Dalibor Jenis (King Matyáš), Peter Mikuláš (Matěj), Michelle Breedt (Anna), Lívia Aghová (Liduška), Michal Lehotsky (Jenik), Markus Schäfer (Jindřich)
Prague Chamber Choir, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln & WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Gerd Albrecht
Dvorák's delightful The King and the CharcoalBurner was the second opera that he wrote and the first to be staged. In its first form it was abandoned during rehearsal as being too complex and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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