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Massenet: Operatic and Orchestral Favourites
Georges Thill, Germaine Cernay, Fanny Heldy, Dorothy Kirsten, Robert Merrill, Ninon Vallin, César Vezzani, Jeanne Guyla, Marcel Journet, Emma Luart, Gaston Micheletti, Bidú Sayão, Arthur Endrèze, Cesare Valletti, Rosa Ponselle (soprano), Alfred Lennartz (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre...
2 CDs
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Gounod: Faust
Eugene Conley (Faust), Cesare Siepi (Méphistophélès), Eleanor Steber (Marguerite), Frank Guarrera (Valentin), Margaret Roggero (Siébel), Thelma Votipka (Marthe) & Lawrence Davidson (Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Fausto Cleva
2 CDs
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Chabrier: Orchestral, Vocal and Piano Works
Thomas Beecham, John Barbirolli, Wilhelm Schuchter & Eduard von Lindenberg
this is a fascinating collection which will have you going back to other recordings of these works to compare and contrast their approaches to the music of this most fascinating and surprising... — More…
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Verdi: Otello (highlights)
Mario del Monaco, Giovanni Martinelli, Jon Vickers, Giovanni Zenatello, Enrico Caruso, Ramon Vinay (Otello), Lawrence Tibbett, Tito Gobbi, Titta Ruffo (Iago), Renata Tebaldi, Eleanor Steber, Rosa Ponselle, Elisabeth Rethberg and Leonie Rysanek (Desdemona)
by the arrival of the conclusion of Niun Mi Tema, I was left nearly convinced that I had heard the work complete and had barely noticed any differences in the recorded sound...Inevitably the... — More…
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Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
Rita Streich (Gretel), Gisela Litz (Hänsel), Marianne Schech (Gertrud), Horst Günter (Peter), Res Fischer (Die Knusperhexe), Elisabeth Lindermeier (Sandmännchen), Bruno Brückmann (Taumännchen), Hermann Prey (baritone), Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Bavarian Radio Choir & Munich Philharmonic...
Tempi are flexible and what we hear of the orchestra, well balanced within itself, is very characterful. The singers adopt a similar approach, especially Rita Streich, on top of her form...Res... — More…
2 CDs
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Elisabeth Grümmer (Eva), Ferdinand Frantz (Hans Sachs), Benno Kusche (Beckmesser), Rudolf Schock (Walther von Stolzing), Gerhard Unger (David), Marga Höffgen (Magdalena), Gottlob Frick (Pogner), Gustav Neidlinger (Kothner), Hermann Prey (Nachtwächter)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe
a fine memorial to Kempe’s fabled strengths in Wagner — More…
4 CDs
$48.25