Robert Tear
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Berg: Lulu
RecommendedTeresa Stratas (Lulu), Yvonne Minton (Gräfin Geschwitz), Franz Mazura (Dr Schön), Kenneth Riegel (Alwa), Toni Blankenheim (Schigolch/Der Medizinalrat/Ein Polizeikommissär), Robert Tear (Der Maler/Der Neger)
Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris, Pierre Boulez
Boulez's intelligently authoritative conducting and Teresa Stratas's stunning performance in the title role prove to be an unbeatable combination. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Opera
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Grammy Awards, 23rd Awards (1980), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 23rd Awards (1980), Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 23rd Awards (1980), Classical Album of the Year
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
RecommendedLucia Popp (Susanna), Kiri Te Kanawa (Countess), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Samuel Ramey (Figaro), Thomas Allen (Count)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Kiri te Kanawa sings the Countess's aria with meltingly beautiful tone...The discreet flirtation with Cherubino...is done with some feeling...Thomas Allen is quite simply superb as the Count. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 26th Awards (1983), Best Opera Recording
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
RecommendedSung in English
Peter Pears (Evangelist), Heather Harper (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor), Gwynne Howell (Jesus), John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
Britten characteristically refuses to follow any set tradition, whether Baroque, Victorian or whatever, and, with greater extremes of tempo than is common (often strikingly fast), the result... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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British Music Collection - Gustav Holst
Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Thomas Hemsley (baritone), Osian Ellis (harp)
Purcell Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Imogen Holst, Christopher Hogwood, Adrian...
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Beethoven: Mass in C & Missa Solemnis RecommendedElly Ameling (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo), Theo Altmeyer (tenor), Marius Rintzler (bass), Heather Harper (soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass)
New Philharmonia Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini draws an almost spiritual glow from the London Philharmonic in a luminous performance of the Missa Solemnis. The Et incarnatus est section is heart-stoppingly spine-tingling,... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2012, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z630, etc.
RecommendedApril Cantelo (soprano), Wilfred Brown/Robert Tear/Iam Partridge (tenors), Christopher Keyte (bass), Elsie Morison/Heather Harper/Mary Thomas (sopranos), John Whitworth (countertenor), David Galliver/Wilfred Brown (tenors), John Cameron (baritone), Hervey Alan/Trevor Anthony (basses)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Rachmaninov: The Four Piano Concertos, Piano Works, Three Symphonies and Orchestral Works RecommendedNikolai Lugansky (piano), Nikolai Lugansky (piano) & Alexander Kniazev (cello), Sheila Armstrong • Robert Tear • John Shirley-Quirk
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sakari Oramo, André Previn
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Grammy Awards, 19th Awards (1976), Best Choral Performance
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Wagner: Parsifal
René Kollo (Parsifal), Christa Ludwig (Kundry), Zoltan Kelemen (Klingsor), Gottlob Frick (Gurnemanz), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Amfortas), Hans Hotter (Titurel), Lucia Popp (soprano), Kiri Te Kanawa (Flower-Maidens), Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Very Best of English Song RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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150th Anniversary Box - Mahler Complete Works RecommendedCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Carlo Maria Giulini, Otto Klemperer, Paavo Järvi,...
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th July 2010
16 CDs
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