West Hill Radio Archive
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Sixty years on, the Bartók series is still one of the most accomplished and emotionally engaging cycles ever made of these quartets… These are among the great pioneering performances of some... — More…
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), Eleanor Steber (Donna Anna), Jan Peerce (Don Ottavio), Lisa Della Casa (Donna Elvira), Fernando Corena (Leporello), Giorgio Tozzi (Il Commendatore), Theodor Uppmann (Masetto), Roberta Peters (Zerlina)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Karl Böhm
Despite poor sound, there are attractions in the all-star cast, notably Siepi, the Don Giovanni of his day, but Böhm's Mozart style now seems outdated. — More…
3 CDs
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Beverly Sills (Lucia), Alfredo Kraus (Edgardo), Gian-Pero Mastromei (Ashton) & José Nait (Arturo)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Colón, Juan Emilio Martini
The amazing thing about her Lucia is not so much the way she sings it, though that has moments of incandescent beauty, but the way she manages to make a living, breathing creature of the unhappy... — More…
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Stella Roman (Leonora), Leonard Warren (Il Conte di Luna), Margaret Harshaw (Azucena), Jussi Björling (Manrico), Giacomo Vaghi (Ferrando), Lodovico Oliviero (Ruiz), Inge Manski (Ines) & John Baker (gypsy)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Emil Cooper
2 CDs
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Claudio Arrau and The Romantics
Claudio Arrau (piano), recorded 31st May 1962 in Cologne, recorded 9th March 1960 in Munich
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik, Massimo Pradella
Impassioned, full-bodied playing in the Chopin, though the piano and orchestra sound far apart. — More…
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Pierre Monteux in Boston
Previously Unissued Performances
Leon Fleisher (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux
2 CDs
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Arrau with Szell: Live from Carnegie Hall
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, George Szell
2 CDs
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad, Friedrich Schorr, Karin Branzell, Ludwig Hofmann
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Artur Bodanzky
3 CDs
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Ruth Posselt: Legendary Concerto Performances
Ruth Posselt (violin) Allan Sly (piano)
Florida State Chamber Orchestra, Harvard-Radcliff Orchestra, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, Russell Stanger, Richard Burgin
3 CDs
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Jussi Björling Live
Broadcast Concerts 1937-1960
Jussi Björling (tenor), Eleanor Steber (soprano), Licia Albanese (soprano), Anna-Lisa Björling (soprano), Bidú Sayão (soprano), Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Björling recorded [Lensky's aria] many times but never, I think, so poignantly as here. As a prologue to this year's centenary celebrations the album is a worthy offering and this track an especially... — More…
4 CDs
$39.25
