Testament
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The Hollywood String Quartet play Schoenberg and Schubert
RecommendedAlvin Dinkin, Kurt Reher
The Hollywood String Quartet
This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2007, Historic Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Building a Library, October 2006, Historic Choice
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Rostropovich & Britten
RecommendedRecorded live at the 1961 Aldeburgh Music Festival - Previously unpublished
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) & Benjamin Britten (piano), Peter Pears (tenor)
this Testament release of Rostropovich in his debut at the Aldeburgh Festival catches the cellist somewhere near his early and all-conquering best — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th April 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
RecommendedAase Nordmo-Løvberg, Christa Ludwig, Waldemar Kmentt, Hans Hotter
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
…Otto Klemperer's energy and momentum come not from his tempos but from the way the rhythms are articulated. In the first movement and Scherzo the heroic, teeth-gritted determination are physically... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st February 2010
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Building a Library, December 2009, First Choice
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Beethoven & Mozart: Quintets for Piano and Wind
RecommendedWalter Gieseking, Dennis Brain
Philharmonia Wind Quartet, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
There have never been any doubts about these performances. The horn playing in the Sinfoniaconcertante is unsurpassable and in the quintets Gieseking's lightness and his clarity and sense of... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2007, Historic Choice
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
RecommendedSena Jurinac (Leonore), Jon Vickers (Florestan), Gottlob Frick (Rocco), Hans Hotter (Pizarro), Elsie Morison (Marzelline), John Dobson (Jaquino), Forbes Robinson (Fernando), Joseph Ward (First Prisoner), Victor Godfrey (Second Prisoner)
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Klemperer
Here is the first night of Otto Klemperer's legendary 1961 Fidelio, from the Royal Opera House, to challenge his noted studio set from a year later.This confirms the Achilles' heel of Walter... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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