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Special offer. Puccini: Tosca
Leontyne Price (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia), Fernando Corena (Il Sagristano)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Awards:
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Building a Library, June 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording
It is a joy to hear Puccini's orchestration ... brought out with such precision ... Karajan's impressiveness consists of more than drawing brilliant playing from the Vienna Philharmonic ......
Special offer. Puccini: Tosca
Leontyne Price (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia), Fernando Corena (Il Sagristano)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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Awards:
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Building a Library, June 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording
It is a joy to hear Puccini's orchestration ... brought out with such precision ... Karajan's impressiveness consists of more than drawing brilliant playing from the Vienna Philharmonic ......
About
Studio recording, 1962
Contents and tracklist
- Carlo Cava (bass), Fernando Corena (bass), Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor), Leontyne Price (soprano), Giuseppe Taddei (baritone), Piero de Palma (tenor), Leonardo Monreale (bass), Herbert Weiss (treble), Alfredo Mariotti (baritone)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper
- Herbert von Karajan
- Recorded: 1962-09-24
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Awards and reviews
It is a joy to hear Puccini's orchestration ... brought out with such precision ... Karajan's impressiveness consists of more than drawing brilliant playing from the Vienna Philharmonic ... [his] control of tension shows itself at its most impressive ... Price pours forth a flood of rich, glorious tone and her attention to detail is exemplary
2010 edition
It remains one of the finest versions, with Leontyne Price at the peak of her form and Di Stefano singing most sensitively. But Karajan deserves equal credit with the principal singers, and the sound is first class.
