DVD Video, Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
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Special offer. Sir Georg Solti conducts Mendelssohn & Brahms
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Not only is it a privilege to witness a seasoned outfit playing with such opulent tone, unbounded musicality and selfless application, the dynamic yet ever watchful Solti directs proceedings... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, DVD of the Month
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Verdi: Otello
Plácido Domingo (Otello), Kiri Te Kanawa (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Robin Leggate (Cassio), Ramon Remedios (Rodrigo), Mark Beesley (Lodovico), Roderick Earle (Montano), Claire Powell (Emilia)
The Royal Opera & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Georg Solti
Sergei Leiferkus's dark Russian tone… suits Iago down to the ground. Kiri Te Kanawa's limpid tone makes her a near-ideal Desdemona… Plácido Domingo… is noble and heroic. —
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Special offer. Sir Georg Solti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2 February 1985, Royal Festival Hall, London
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Captured in satisfyingly full-blooded 'enhanced mono' sound (with just an occasional patch of pre- and post-echo) both symphonies receive top-class advocacy...What an enviably secure and commandingly... —
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Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Kiri Te Kanawa (Marschallin), Anne Howells (Octavian), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Aage Haugland (Baron Ochs), Jonathan Summers (Faninal), Robert Tear (Valzacchi), Cynthia Buchan (Annina), Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Georg Solti, John Schlesinger
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Maestro or Mephisto: The Real Georg Solti
A film by Andy King-Dabbs
featuring Plácido Domingo, Valery Gergiev, Angela Gheorghiu, Kiri Te Kanawa, Murray Perahia, Lady Valerie Solti and many more
Georg Solti
Solti himself emerges with screen-crackling vigour both justifying and rubbishing the title Maestro or Mephisto. True, those vulpine features and glittering eyes do suggest the Demon King and... —
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Solti Centenary Concert
Live recording from Symphony Center, Chicago, 2012
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), René Pape (bass), Tereza Gevorgyan (soprano), Matilda Paulsson (mezzo-soprano), Roberto Gòmez-Ortiz (tenor) & Ross Ramgobin (baritone)
Members of the Georg Solti Accademia & World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev
In one sense, this is as much a record of an occasion as of a concert, though the music-making is top class throughout...the high point here is probably the quartet from Rigoletto...quite a... —
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Solti: Journey of a lifetime
Celebrating the 100th birthday of Sir Georg Solti
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Talking heads opine that Solti's career only soared after Bohm retired and Karajan died...it does provide some remarkable anecdotes...such as Solti becoming great cronies with Theodor Adorno...Most... —
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Plácido Domingo (Gustavo III), Leo Nucci (Count Anckarström), Josephine Barstow (Amelia) & Florence Quivar (Madame Arvidson)
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti (conductor) & John Schlesinger (director)
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Special offer. Elgar: Symphony No. 2 & Enigma Variations
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
A highlight of the new ICA Classics Legacy series, Solti's LPO Elgar remains fresh, the passionate vigour of his Second Symphony balanced by one of the most loving Enigma Variations on disc. —
