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Wagner: Parsifal
Jon Vickers (Parsifal), Hans Hotter (Gurnemanz), Thomas Stewart (Amfortas), Gustav Neidlinger (Klingsor), Barbro Ericson (Kundry), Heinz Hagenau (Titurel), Anja Silja, Dorothea Siebert, Liselotte Rebmann, Rita Bartos, Else-Margrete Gardelli, Sylvia Lindenstrand (flower maidens) & Ruth Hesse (voice...
The (to date) 11 released recordings of Hans Knappertsbusch's Parsifal performances at Bayreuth between 1951 and 1964 constitute a unique record of one conductor's work on a favoured score in... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
4 CDs
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Shostakovich - Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Yakov Kreizberg
From the very outset, there's a real sense of urgency about the performance, Müller-Schott's razor-sharp articulation in the outer movements managing to combine rhythmic incisiveness with highly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, Disc of the month
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…possibly the most compelling recorded performance of Max Reger's only surviving piano concerto… The performance marries drama with poetry in an ideal proportions: Erdmann's timing is just... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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Skride delivers beautifully nuanced accounts of these works. Her sweet-toned performances of the first two concertos balance grace, elegance and wit in the outer movements with seductively expressive... — More…
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Van Cliburn: Brahms, Barber, Beethoven & Chopin
3rd August 1964 Salzburg Mozarteum
Van Cliburn (piano)
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos & Choral Fantasy
Rudolf Serkin (piano), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik
Serkin was never interested in ingratiating himself through honeyed phrases or silken tone. Instead in these interpretations there is musical purpose and intellectual rigour in every detail...All... — More…
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R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
RecommendedAnne Schwanewilms (soprano), with Jutta Böhnert (Sophie) & Regina Richter (Octavian)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Markus Stenz
There’s some wonderful singing [in the Capriccio extract]...She’s also excellent as Arabella. At the start of the solo her singing is touching and with a hint of vulnerability to it. Later...she... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th July 2012
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
George London (Dutchman), Josef Greindl (Daland), Leonie Rysanek (Senta), Fritz Uhl (Erik), Res Fischer (Mary), Georg Paskuda (Steuermann)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Sawallisch
A blistering mono performance live from Bayreuth. Wolfgang Sawallisch takes no musical prisoners as Leonie Rysanek tears through Senta, all but incinerating George London’s Dutchman. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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Martin: Der Cornet - Vinyl Edition
Marjana Lipovsek (contralto)
Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lothar Zagrosek
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