Testament
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The concerts recorded here preserve the two legendary occasions in the autumn of 1952 when in a Brahms cycle at the Royal Festival Hall Toscanini conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra, then only... — More…
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Brian: The Tigers
Teresa Cahill, Marilyn Hill-Smith, Alan Opie & Kenneth Woollam
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Friend
The Tigers is a rich, inventive and unique score. Testament, the Havergal Brian Society and the BBC are to be congratulated on making this magnificent recording generally available and for doing... — More…
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Das Rheingold
Hans Hotter (Wotan), Erich Witte (Loge), Otakar Kraus (Alberich), Georgine von Milinkovic (Fricka), Kurt Böhme (Fasolt), Frederick Dalberg (Fafner), Elisabeth Lindermeier (Freia), Robert Allman (Donner), Edgar Evans (Froh), Peter Klein (Mime), Maria von Ilosvay...
In short, Kempe's humane, often poetic Ring nourishes the spirit. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Verdi: La Traviata
Rosanna Carteri (Violetta), Cesare Valletti (Alfredo), Leonard Warren (Giorgio Germont), Lidia Marimpietri (Flora), Rina Alessandri (Annina)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Pierre Monteux
perhaps the principal reason for valuing this vintage set lies in the conducting of the octogenarian, Pierre Monteux. He brings together lyrical warmth and vigour with a rhythmic lift that is... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2005, Re-issue of the Month
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Michelangeli plays Schumann, Chopin, Debussy & Mompou
RecommendedArturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
Readers who are familiar with Michelangeli's 1971 DG recording of Debussy's Images will be astonished at this highly mobile 1957 concert performance of 'Cloches à travers les feuilles', which... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2001, First Choice
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Kathleen Ferrier - Mahler: Symphony No. 3 and Kindertotenlieder
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Otto Klemperer
Boult's forthright approach to the music generates an epic grandeur that impresses in its own right. Then enter Kathleen Ferrier. Her singing of the fourth movement's 'Night Song' is wondrously... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Theo Adam, Anja Silja, Martti Talvela, James King, Kenneth Macdonald & Annelies Burmeister
BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
Thanks to Testament, we now have the Royal Festival Hall performance, as broadcast by the BBC, to put alongside the Abbey Road recording (above – made by EMI at the same period) which might... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Disc of the Month
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To my mind, these previously unreleased BBC broadcasts from the late 1950s and early ‘60s contain some of Pears’s most alluring singing on record: highlights include an elegant ‘Hark, hark the... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Alfred Deller (Oberon), Jennifer Vyvyan (Tytania), Leonide Massine II (Puck), Kevin Platts (Cobweb), Robert McCutcheon (Mustardseed), Barry Ferguson (Moth), Michael Bauer (Peaseblossom), George Maran (Lysander), Thomas Hemsley (Demetrius), Marjorie Thomas (Hermia), April Cantelo (Helena), Forbes...
The cast play as an ensemble with remarkable detail. Alfred Deller, especially, is in excellent voice as Oberon...though the playing is not immaculate, Britten leads his forces with tremendous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Re-issue of the Month
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