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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
RecommendedPlacido Domingo (Hoffmann), Catherine Malfitano (Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta), Ann Murray (Niklausse, Hoffmann's Muse), Jose van Dam(Lindorf, Coppélius, Miracle, Dapertutto), Rémy Corazza (Andrès, Cochenille, Frantz, Pitichinaccio), Kurt Rydl (Luther, Crespel), Jocelyne Taillon (Antonia's mother),...
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Building a Library, May 2015, First Choice
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Peter Seiffert (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Janina Baechle (Brangäne), Stephen Milling (König Marke), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Kurwenal)
Wiener Staatsoper, Franz Welser-Möst
This new/old set is of absorbing interest for the conductor’s work with the score and the special strengths of his Isolde. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
RecommendedWolfgang Windgassen (Tannhäuser), Victoria de los Angeles (Elisabeth), Grace Bumbry (Venus), Josef Greindl (Landgraf), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Wolfram), Gerhard Stolze (Walther), Franz Crass (Biterolf), Gerhard Paskuda (Heinrich), Theo Adam (Reinmar)
Orchesta of the Bayreuth Festival, Wolfgang...
Bumbry's über-sensuous Venus [is] a feline Carmen transported to the Horselborg...This performance is all the more treasurable because it is the first of de Los Angeles’s three Wagner roles…to... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Schmidt: Piano Quintet & Clarinet Quintet
Rainer Keuschnig (left-hand piano) Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet), Josef Hell (violin), Peter Wächter (violin), Peter Pecha (viola), Gerhard Iberer (cello) & Leonard Wallisch (cello)
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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
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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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Donizetti & Verdi: Opera Arias
Hila Fahima (soprano), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michele Gamba
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Puccini: Turandot
Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Peter Klein (Altoum), Giuseppe di Stefano (Calaf), Leontyne Price (Liu), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur), Kostas Paskalis (Ping), Ermanno Lorenzi (Pang), Murray Dickie (Pong) & Alois Pernersdorfer (Mandarin)
Choir & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
It's not so hard to think oneself present, especially when the recording is as vivid as this and the performance so compelling. It was a special night in Vienna. Karl Löbl wrote it up (and partly... — More…
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The Austrian take time to settle in Bernstein's own composition...but sit spellbound throughout the fiery, finally hell-for-leather interpretation of the Shostakovich...what a relief to revisit... — More…
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