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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas RecommendedJanet Baker (Dido), Raimund Herincx (Aeneas), Patricia Clark (Belinda), Monica Sinclair (Sorceress)
English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Singers, Anthony Lewis
Listening to Janet Baker as Dido in her celebrated recording made at the dawn of her career, in 1962, still leaves one breathless with admiration and moved to the core by her combination of... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2001, Mid-Price Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11 RecommendedWalter Berry (Bluebeard), Christa Ludwig (Judith)
London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész
Kertész shapes the music admirably, and Walter Berry makes an appropriately compassionate Bluebeard (as opposed to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on DG, who is altogether too menacing); but neither... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 RecommendedDella Casa, Danco, Siepi
Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Josef Krips
Freshly remastered, it sounds better than ever...Its intense, dramatic account of the Don's disappearance into hell has rarely been equalled and never surpassed on CD...As a bass Don, Siepi... — More…
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Lucia), Renato Cioni (Edgardo), Robert Merrill (Enrico), Cesare Siepi (Raimondo), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Rinaldo Pelizzoni (Normanno), Ana Raquel Satra (Alisa)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir John Pritchard
Sutherland enthusiasts will be thrilled, as indeed I am, by the sheer beauty and power of the singing, by the soprano's total command of the technical requirements the role calls for, and by... — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Hilde Gueden (Susanna), Cesare Siepi (Figaro), Lisa della Casa (Countess Almaviva), Alfred Poell (Count Almaviva), Suzanne Danco (Cherubino)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Erich Kleiber
Erich Kleiber's Vienna recording...remains matchless for its unfolding drama and sheer musicality. The brilliant Austrian conductor's sense of timing is almost uncanny, keeping the action moving... — More…
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Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, etc. Kirsten Flagstad (soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Hans Knappertsbusch
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Verdi: Aida Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Giulietta Simionato, Cornell MacNeil
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert van Karajan
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Strauss: Four Last Songs and scenes from Capriccio, Arabella and Ariadne auf Naxos
Lisa della Casa (soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm/Rudolk Moralt/Heinrich Hollreiser
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