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Grammy Awards, Strauss, R (composer)
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Special offer. 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.... —
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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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Special offer. Richard Strauss - The Great Tone Poems
RecommendedVienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Grammy Awards, 19th Awards (1976), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building a Library, October 2019, Also Recommended
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended - Eine Alpensinfonie
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Joyce DiDonato: Diva, Divo
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Orchestre et Choeur de L'Opéra National De Lyon, Kazushi Ono
Proof of DiDonato's consummate musicianship is everywhere here...For sheer beauty of tone, legato that defies gravity and singing that restores your faith in human nature, listen last of all... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Recital
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, Opera Choice
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opera, June 2011, Recording of the Month
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R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, Trv 176 - Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54 (Live)
RecommendedSeattle Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
Both [works] need this wide soundscape and the art that conceals art for the details in a clear, broad picture. We still get the timbres of woodwind and harps adding their splashes of colour;... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Leontyne Price - Richard Strauss
RecommendedLeontyne Price (soprano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
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Grammy Awards, 8th Awards (1965), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Leontyne Price - A Program of Song
RecommendedLeontyne Price (soprano), David Garvey (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 3rd Awards (1960), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
RecommendedAnna Tomowa-Sintow (Ariadne), Agnes Baltsa (Der Komponist), Kathleen Battle (Zerbinetta), Gary Lakes (Bacchus), Hermann Prey (Musiklehrer), Urban Malmberg (Harlekin), Barbara Bonney (Najade), Helga Müller-Molinari (Dryade), Dawn Upshaw (Echo), Kurt Rydl (Truffaldin), Otto Schenk (Haushofmeister)
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Grammy Awards, 30th Awards (1987), Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. A Concert for Ukraine
RecommendedVladyslav Buialskyi (baritone), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Elza van den Heever (soprano), Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ryan Speedo Green (bassbaritonevocalist), Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
This is a moving record of the Metropolitan Opera’s concert in solidarity with Ukraine, back in March, when the war was in its early days. A stirring Ukrainian national anthem and Silvestrov’s... —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Leontyne Price sings Strauss
RecommendedLeontyne Price (soprano)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall
RecommendedKathleen Battle (soprano), Margot Garrett (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 35th Awards (1992), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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