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DVD Video, Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
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Special offer. Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
Phyllis Curtin (soprano), Nicholas Di Virgilio (tenor), Tom Krause (baritone)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
Although visually showing its age, the stereo sound on this broadcast of the American premiere of the War Requiem sounds remarkably fresh and vivid, and Leinsdorf is authoritative. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, DVD of the Month
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Leinsdorf is efficient in Mahler's First Symphony and Till Eulenspiegel —
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos (original 1912 version)
Claire Watson (Ariadne), Beverly Sills (Zerbinetta), Robert Nagy (Bacchus), John Reardon (Harlekin), Benita Valente (Naiad), Eunice Alberts (Dryad), Carole Bogard (Echo), Malcolm Smith (Truffaldin), John Ferrante (Brighella), James Billings (Scaramuccio)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
The first (concert) performance in the USA of the original Ariadne, minus the play that precedes the opera. There is some dazzling singing from Beverly Sills as Zerbinetta. —
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Special offer. Erich Leinsdorf conducts Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & Mozart
Volume 3
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
A hard-driven but very exciting Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 and Beethoven's Egmont from 1969 is countered by a delightful, stylish Mozart's Posthorn Serenade. —
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Boston Symphony Orchestra & Erich Leinsdorf play Schubert & Schumann
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
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Leinsdorf deploys a bizarre praying mantis manner on the podium that nonetheless unleashes playing as lustrous as the Symphony Hall acoustic itself. —
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Special offer. Masterworks: Strauss and Mahler
Carolyn Watkinson & John Mitchinson
London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, Erich Leinsdorf, Kurt Sanderling, Hartmut Haenchen
