Orfeo
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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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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)
Ramón Vargas (Don Carlos), Alastair Miles (Philippe II), Bo Skovhus (Rodrigue), Nadja Michael (La Princesse Eboli), Iano Tamar (Elisabeth de Valois), Simon Yang (Le Grand Inquisiteur), Cornelia Salje (Thibault), Dan Paul Dumitrescu (Un Moine), Benedikt Kobel (Le Compte de Lerme), Inna Los (Un Voix...
This is an issue of major importance, which all lovers of Verdi should acquire, since it will enable them to hear about 45 minutes of his most mature music which is otherwise not available…... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, Opera Choice
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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: Lohengrin
RecommendedMartti Talvela (King Henry), Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Claire Watson (Elsa), Walter Berry (Telramund), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud), Eberhard Waechter (Herald), Kurt Equiluz, Fritz Sperlbauer, Herbert Lackner & Ljubomir Pantscheff
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
Claire Watson excels her studio performances, singing Elsa with floods of pure tone that rarely falters...[Ludwig's] 'Entweihte Götter!' literally stops the show...Waechter makes a keen Herald,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Re-issue of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 'Scottish' & Widmann: 180 Beats per minute, Fantasie
Irish Chamber Orchestra, Jörg Widmann
On paper, the programme planning seems incongruous, since there appears to be no obvious stylistic connection between the two composers. Yet in practice, the contrasts work surprisingly well... — More…
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Zemlinsky: Lyrische Symphonie & Schreker: Prelude To A Drama
Karan Armstrong (soprano), Roland Hermann (baritone), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen
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Hartmann: Concerto for piano, winds & percussion and Concerto Funèbre
Maria Bergmann (piano) & Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik
The Concerto funebre (1939, rev 1959) has fared better on disc than any other Hartmann work… Its powerful inner message of grief and protest at then encroachment of tyranny across Europe… gives... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Hans Knappertsbusch conducts Beethoven
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch
Here is Beethoven, Viennese Beethoven, under a conductor who remained impervious to all fads and fashions…this is a species of conducting you will seek out in vain today, the set is the perfect... — More…
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