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Müller-Schott ends this formidable unaccompanied recital with Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds, played with the intense focus, the sense of line and the gleaming purity of tone that characterises... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recital (Cello)
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Verdi: Requiem
Julia Varady (soprano), Alexandrina Milcheva (mezzo-soprano), Alberto Cupido (tenor), Nicola Ghiuselev (bass), ORF Chor, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedKathleen Battle (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo)
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine
Levine's 1989 Salzburg account would seem to have been fashioned with the delicate sensibilities of the glamorous festival audience in mind. It's a reading which dutifully pushes most of the... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Verdi: Arias
Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ewa Podles (contralto), Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukas Borowicz
The Polish tenor's move into a heavier repertoire than hitherto associated with him is amply vindicated in this celebratory CD...he retains the golden quality of his voice as he sizes up. The... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, Opera Choice
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
RecommendedMargaret Price (soprano) & Thomas Allen (baritone)
Chor und Orchestra des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wolfgang Sawallisch
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Building a Library, September 2012, First Choice
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Grace Bumbry (mezzo), Jess Thomas (tenor), George London (bass)
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Karl Bohm
In the firm momentum, sleek moulding and Classically wind-heavy balancing of the inner movements may be detected the ghostly hand of Richard Strauss upon his friend’s shoulder. In the second... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Collectionneur
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A splendid recital from a young soprano who rises with skill and flair to the music's varied challenges. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Missa solemnis (Live)
Helen Donath (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano), Horst Rüdiger Laubenthal (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass), Peter Schreier (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelík
Immediately establishes itself among the front-runners for a stereo Ninth which, although analogue, sounds wholly excellent…but what makes this double-pack unmissable is Kubelik’s inspired 1977... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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Schumann: Spanische Liederspiel & Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Edith Mathis (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Peter Schreier (tenor), Walter Berry (baritone), Paul Schilhawsky (piano), Erik Werba (piano)
Salzburger Festspiele, 25. August 1974
The historical value is undeniable and of considerable musical value as well. — More…
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019, Collectionneur
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Haydn: Missa Cellensis & Jommelli: Te Deum and Mass in D major
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Rafael Kubelik
2 CDs
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