Nimbus
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Orchestral Favourites Volume IV - Elgar's Enignma Variations
English Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton
This recording of the variations is a strong candidate in a crowded field. —
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There are those who say that once they had heard Ponselle in the flesh they never wanted to hear her recordings for they did her such scant justice. That is quite credible, though the reaction... —
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Great Singers in Mozart
Marcel Journet, Frida Leider, Richard Tauber, Friedrich Schorr, Maria Ivogun, Wilhelm Hesch, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Alexander Kipnis, Conchita Supervia, Lotte Lehmann, Eidé Norena, Julius Patzak, Gerhard Hüsch, Lotte Schöne
A fascinating range of vocalism ... I can't imagine anyone failing to be spellbound by the Nimbus collection ... Nimbus' sonic restoration of this archival material is astonishingly successful. —
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So why should you buy this disc? The answer is the sound ... I have heard just about all the Schipa transfers over the years, and from none of the others has his voice emerged with such startling... —
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Nimbus has done [Ponselle] a signal honor by devoting a third disc to her recordings, but this is no collection of near-misses and also-rans: the seventeen items on this disc come from the same... —
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Alexander Kipnis
Opera and Lieder
Alexander Kipnis (bass), with Else Ruziczka (soprano), with Fritz Wolff (tenor)
