Browse: Jon Vickers (tenor)
This page lists all recordings performed by Jon Vickers.
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
RecommendedSena Jurinac (Leonore), Jon Vickers (Florestan), Gottlob Frick (Rocco), Hans Hotter (Pizarro), Elsie Morison (Marzelline), John Dobson (Jaquino), Forbes Robinson (Fernando), Joseph Ward (First Prisoner), Victor Godfrey (Second Prisoner)
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Klemperer
Here is the first night of Otto Klemperer's legendary 1961 Fidelio, from the Royal Opera House, to challenge his noted studio set from a year later.This confirms the Achilles' heel of Walter... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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
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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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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Live)
Robert Kerns (baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano), Jon Vickers (tenor), Anton Diakov (bass), Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano), Olivera Miljaković (soprano), Júlia Hamari (mezzo-soprano), Justino Díaz (bass-baritone), John van Kesteren (baritone), Milen Paunov (tenor)
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Kinderchor...
There’s some extremely potent singing from three of the leads (Bumbry, Vickers and Freni’s Micaëla), not least from Bumbry with a subtle range of dynamics that truly suggest both the almost obligatory... — More…
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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: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Wotan), Josephine Veasey (Fricka), Gerhard Stolze (Loge), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Mime), Zoltán Kéléman (Alberich), Simone Mangelsdorff (Freia), Donald Grobe (Froh), Robert Kerns (Donner), Oralia Domínguez (Erda), Martti Talvela (Fasolt), Karl Ridderbusch (Fafner), Liselotte Rebmann...
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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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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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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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Cherubini: Medea Maria Callas, Jon Vickers & Fiorenza Cossotto
Covent Garden Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno
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