Testament
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Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts Strauss & Wagner
RecommendedKirsten Flagstad
Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
The world premiere of Four Last Songs in its best transfer ever, plus some previously unissued Wagner from the same concert. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th March 2007
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedDas Rheingold Hans Hotter (Wotan), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Georgine von Milinkovič (Fricka), Rudolf Lustig (Loge), Paul Kuen (Mime), Ludwig Weber (Fasolt), Josef Greindl (Fafner), Josef Traxel (Froh), Hertha Wilfert (Freia), Jutta Vulpius (Woglinde), Elisabeth Schärtel (Wellgunde),...
[Keilberth] is urgent and passionate, and the thrust of the performance makes the result intensely exciting, inspiring the great Wagnerian singers in the cast to give of their finest...here... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st February 2010
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Building a Library, January 2008, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedWolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Astrid Varnay (Brünnhilde), Hans Hotter (Der Wanderer), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Paul Kuen (Mime), Maria von Ilosvay (Erda)
Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth
Time and again, as I listened enraptured to this overwhelming performance, I felt as though as I was sitting in the Bayreuth stalls. …Keilberth's… command of every aspect of this vast score... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2008, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Historical Recording
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
RecommendedJutta Vulpius, Elisabeth Schärtel, Maria Graf, Gustav Neidlinger, Astrid Varnay, Maria von Ilosvay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Georgine von Milinkovic, Mina Bolotine, Hermann Uhde, Josef Greindl, Gré Brouwenstijn
Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth
…Götterdämmerung with white-hot immediacy. The cast is superb, from Norns and Rhinemaidens upward. Keilberth sweeps them all along the path of tragedy with compellingly balanced drive and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Historic Archive
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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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Wagner: Die Walküre
RecommendedGeorgine von Milinkovic, Hans Hotter, Ramón Vinay, Gré Brouwenstijn, Josef Greindl, Astrid Varnay, Gerda Lammers, Elisabeth Schärtel, Maria von Ilosvay, Hilde Scheppan, Jean Watson, Maria Graf & Hertha Wilfert
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth
…a quite remarkable performance from New Bayreuth's golden era, with an underrated conductor and truly classic cast. …Hotter's magnificent Wotan… his verbal sensitivity and expressive range... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
4 CDs
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Victoria de los Angeles
RecommendedVictoria de los Angeles, soprano (Manon) - Henri Legay, ténor (Chevalier des Grieux) - Michel Dens, baryton (Lescaut) - Jean Borthayre, basse (Comte des Grieux)
Choeurs et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, Radcliffe Choral Society, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux,...
Recorded in mono in 1955, the set fell at a unique point in the opera's history on disc.
Previous recordings from the 78rpm era had captured the special Opéra-Comique spirit for posterity, but... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, December 2000, Historic Choice
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Building a Library, March 2018, Also recommended
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Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2 - Vinyl Edition
L'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, André Cluytens
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André Cluytens
Orchestre National de la Radiodifussion Française, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, André Cluytens
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$14.00
