Jon Vickers
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Special offer. 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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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... —
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Special offer. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Jessye Norman (soprano), Jon Vickers (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Jon Vickers (tenor), George London (baritone), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Marie Collier (soprano), Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano), Gré Brouwenstijn (soprano), David Ward (bass), Rita Gorr (mezzo-soprano), Noreen Berry (mezzo-soprano), Maureen Guy (mezzo-soprano), Judith Pierce (soprano), Margreta...
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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 —
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Grammy Awards, 22nd Awards (1979), Best Opera Recording
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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... —
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. Cherubini: Medea
Maria Callas (Medea), Jon Vickers (Giasone), Fiorenza Cossotto (Neris), Nicola Zaccaria (Creonte), Joan Carlyle (Glauce), Mary Wells (First Maidservant), Elizabeth Rust (Second Maidservant) & David Allen (Captain of the Guard)
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno
[This version] would have small claims to be authentic...What is authentic is the passion and intensity that Callas brings to would become one of her greatest roles...The supporting cast is... —
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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... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre: Act 1, etc.
RecommendedBirgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), George London (Wotan), Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Gré Brouwenstijn (Sieglinde), David Ward (Hunding), Rita Gorr (Fricka)
London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
…an exciting, eloquent, lyrical, an always vital account of the opera and draws splendid playing, of which the conductor must have been proud, and we should be, from the London Symphony Orchestra,... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Helga Dernesch (soprano), Peter Schreier (tenor), Jon Vickers (tenor), Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Bernd Weikl (bass-baritone), Karl Ridderbusch (bass), Martin Vantin (bass-baritone), Berliner Philharmoniker, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Herbert von Karajan
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