Carlos Kleiber
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Verdi: La Traviata
RecommendedIleana Cotrubas (Violetta), Plácido Domingo (Alfredo), Sherrill Milnes (Giorgio Germont), Stefania Malagù (Flora), Helena Jungwirth (Annina), Walter Gullino (Gastone), Giovanni Foiani (Dottore Grenvil)
Bayerischer Staatsoper, Carlos Kleiber
Cotrubas makes an ideal heroine in this opera, for her characterization combines strength with vulnerability...Kleiber's direction is controversial, with more than a hint of Toscanini-like rigidity... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Building a Library, October 2019, Recommended Recording
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Brigitte Fassbaender (Octavian), Claire Watson (Marschallin), Karl Ridderbusch (Ochs), Lucia Popp (Sophie), Benno Kusche (Faninal), Annelie Waas (Marianne), David Thaw (Valzacchi), Margarethe Bence (Annina) & Gerhard Unger (Italian singer)
Bavarian State Opera, Carlos Kleiber
This performance from 1973 is notable for its extraordinary textural clarity, in this densest of scores, and its rhythmic vitality. The vocal hero of the occasion is Brigitte Fassbaender as... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Margaret Price (Isolde), René Kollo (Tristan), Brigitte Fassbaender (Brangaene), Kurt Moll (König Marke), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Kurwenal), Werner Götz (Melot), Anton Dermota (Hirt)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber
Kleiber directs a compellingly impulsive reading, crowned by the glorious Isolde of Margaret Price, the most purely beautiful of any complete interpretation on record — More…
3 CDs
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Rééditions
11 CDs
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Offenbach: 3 x Offenbach
RecommendedSanders Schier (Herzog von Tulipatan), Eva Kasper (Alexis), Fritz Ollendorff (Romboidal), Anni Korner (Theodorine) & Alfons Holte (Hermosa), Karl Diekmann (Monsieur), Gabrielle Treskov (Madame), Eva Kasper (Das Zimmermadchen) & Alfons Holte (Der Soldat), Alfons Holte (Pierre), Eva Kasper...
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: La Traviata
RecommendedIleana Cotrubas (Violetta Valery), Stefania Malagu (Flora Bervoix), Helena Jungwirth (Annina), Placido Domingo (Alfredo Germont), Sherrill Milnes (Giorgio Germont), Walter Gullino (Gastone), Bruno Grella (Barone Douphol) Alfredo Giacomotti (Marchese d’Obigny), Giovanni Foiani (Dottore Grenvil), Walter...
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Building a Library, January 2007, First Choice
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus
Hermann Prey, Julia Varady, Lucia Popp, René Kollo, Ivan Rebroff, Bernd Weikl
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber
Twenty-five years after its original release there's still no recording of Die Fledermaus that, for many collectors, matches this one for the compelling freshness of its conductor's interpretation... — More…
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Gundula Janowitz (Agathe), Edith Mathis (Ännchen), Peter Schreier (Max), Theo Adam (Kaspar), Franz Crass (Hermit), Siegfried Vogel (Kuno), Bernd Weikl (Ottokar), Günther Leib (Kilian), Gerhard Paul (Zamiel), Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber
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Johann Strauss: The Blue Danube & other waltzes
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Willi Boskovsky, Carlos Kleiber
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Verdi: Essentials
Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper München (chorus), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Wolfgang Baumgart (chorus master), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (chorus), Walter Hagen-Groll (chorus master), Ernst Senff Chor (chorus), Ernst Senff (chorus master), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Rolando...
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