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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Sherrill Milnes (Don Giovanni), Walter Berry (Leporello), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Donna Anna), Peter Schreier (Don Ottavio), Teresa Zylis-Gara (Donna Elvira), Edith Mathis (Zerlina), Dale Dasing (Masetto), John Macurdy (Commendatore)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm
a mature and deeply satisfying reading, a veritable triumph for this distinguished veteran Mozartian. [Böhm] paces the work with an easy fluency, shaping it symphonically and never losing sight... —
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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
Plácido Domingo (Idomeneo), Cecilia Bartoli (Idamante), Heidi Grant Murphy (Ilia), Carol Vaness (Elettra), Thomas Hampson (Arbace), Frank Lopardo (Gran Sacerdote), Bryn Terfel (La Voce)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Hermann Prey (Figaro), Edith Mathis (Susanna), Gundula Janowitz (Contessa Almaviva), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Conte Almaviva), Tatiana Troyanos (Cherubino), Patricia Johnson (Marcellina), Peter Lagger (Bartolo), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Basilio)
Deutschen Oper Berlin, Karl Böhm
As with many conductors of his generation, Karl Böhm had a now-unfashionable liking for a rallentando at the end of an aria, but that pales into insignificance alongside the many virtues of... —
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Handel: Messiah
Pierrette Alarie, Nan Merriman, Léopold Simoneau, Richard Stande
Vienna Academy Chamber Choir & Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
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Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto
Auger, Hamari, Varady, Davies, Fischer-Dieskau, Rinaldi
English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
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In the 1950s these recordings would have probably given a very up-to-date impression; the playing is extremely clean – there's never a hint of sentimental violin slides or over-use of the sustaining... —
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Sylvia McNair (Susanna), Lucio Gallo (Figaro), Cheryl Studer (Countess), Boje Skovhus (Count), Cecilia Bartoli (Cherubino), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Marcellina), Ildebrando d' Arcangelo (Bartolo), Carlo Allemano (Basilio)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
a little on the plush side, perhaps, but with a good cast including a nicely tremulous Cherubino from Cecilia Bartoli —
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