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Verdi: Falstaff
Fernando Corena (Sir John Falstaff), Juan Oncina, Kevin Miller (Fenton), Walter Monachesi (Ford), Dermot Troy (Dr. Caius), Daniel McCosham (Bardolpho), Marco Stefanoni (Pistola), Anna Maria Rovere (Alice Ford), Eugenia Ratti (Nanetta), Fernanda Cadoni (Meg Page) & Oralia Dominguez (Mistress Quickly)
Glyndebourne...
An ideal ensemble is headed by Corena's robustly restrained Falstaff and Giulini, livelier than in later years — More…
2 CDs
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Puccini: Tosca
Renata Tebaldi (Tosca), Ferruccio Tagliavini (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Michael Langdon (Angelotti), Howell Glynne (Sacristan), David Tree (Spoletta), Ronald Lewis (Sciarrone), Noreen Berry (Shepherd) & Rhydderch Davies (Jailer)
Covent Garden Chorus & Orchestra, Francesco...
Tebaldi's heady tone is equal to every one of the role's musical demands, while dramatically she proves an engaged and potent heroine...[Gobbi's Scarpia] as always is dramatically thrilling;... — More…
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Verdi: La Traviata
Maria Callas (Violetta), Cesare Valletti (Alfredo), Mario Zanasi (Giorgio Germont), Marie Collier (Flora), Forbes Robinson (Barone Douphol), Ronald Lewis (Marchese d'Obigny), Leah Roberts (Annina), Dermot Troy (Gastone), David Kelly (Dottore Grenvil)
Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus,...
though it has been issued on various labels, this ICA Classics recording is the best I have heard...after Act 1, in which [Callas] still does many wonderful things, her performance is on a level... — More…
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Verdi: Requiem
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Nina Isakova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Ivanovsky (tenor) & Ivan Petrov (bass)
State Academy Chorus & Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de l’ORTF, Igor Markevitch
one of the great interpretations, intensely felt and marvellously acute in its understanding of the balance between the score's devotional and dramatic elements. The playing and choral singing... — More…
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Cherubini: Medea
Maria Callas (Medea), Jon Vickers (Giasone), Fiorenza Cossotto (Neris), Nicola Zaccaria (Creonte), Joan Carlyle (Glauce), Mary Wells (First Maidservant), Elizabeth Rust (Second Maidservant) & David Allen (Captain of the Guard)
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno
[This version] would have small claims to be authentic...What is authentic is the passion and intensity that Callas brings to would become one of her greatest roles...The supporting cast is... — More…
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Munch was noted for his performances of French music and the [Franck] is treasure indeed...searing, warm-blooded and slightly brisker than Monteux's benchmark recording made the same year with... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - DVD Performance
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Sir Thomas Beecham - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Itter Collection
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
His mercurial personality was almost invariably at its most beguiling live in concert. One sense an extra degree of imperativeness in gripping performances of Haydn’s symphonies Nos 99 and 101,... — More…
4 CDs
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Great Choral Classics
Heather Harper (soprano), Julia Hamari (alto), Sven Olof Eliasson (tenor), Peter Meven (bass), Wolfgang Marschner (violin), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Nina Isakova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Ivanovsky (tenor) & Ivan Petrov (bass), Teresa Cahill (soprano), Dame Janet...
5 CDs
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Great Italian Operas
Renata Tebaldi (Tosca), Ferruccio Tagliavini (Cavaradossi) & Tito Gobbi (Baron Scarpia), Rolando Panerai (Figaro), Teresa Berganza (Rosina), Luigi Alva (Count Almaviva), Fernando Corena (Bartolo), Fernando Corena (Falstaff), Anna Maria Rovere (Alice Ford), Fernanda Cadoni (Meg Page), Oralia Dominguez...
6 CDs
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Boston Symphony Orchestra & Erich Leinsdorf play Schubert & Schumann
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
