Historical
Great historical recordings from the EMI archives, remastered.
The fairly new series documenting the most important historical recordings from EMI's rich back catalogue. A great opportunity to purchase some of the legendary recordings from the EMI archive at super-budget price. There is the Maria Callas Tosca, some of Furtwängler's Beethoven symphonies a lot more.
This series should grow to legendary status over the coming years.
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Karajan conducts Verdi’s Falstaff
RecommendedNan Merriman, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Fedora Barbieri, Tito Gobbi, Tomaso Spataro, Renato Ercolani, Nicola Zaccaria, Luigi Alva, Rolando Panerai & Anna Moffo
Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
This Falstaff still stands (with Toscanini) peerless in the catalogue. At its centre stands Tito Gobbi, and his is a presence large enough to encompass both the lord and the jester, the sensuous... —
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Building a Library, February 2002, First Choice
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Puccini: Tosca
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi
Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Victor de Sabata
In this remastering of one of the classic performances of the gramophone, one of Walter Legge's masterpieces as a creative recording producer, you barely miss stereo recording. With offstage... —
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Mozart: 16 Lieder & Quintet for Piano and Wind
Walter Gieseking (piano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Philharmonia Wind Ensemble
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
RecommendedLudwig Suthaus (Tristan), Kirsten Flagstad (Isolde), Blanche Thebom (Brangaene), Josef Greindl (Konig Marke), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Kurwenal), Edgar Evans (Melot), Rudolf Schock (Hirt)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
the two leads have never been equalled. The Phiharmonia Orchestra is at its absolute peak, too; and, working in long takes, the result is that the unique intensity and continuity of this score... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci
Maria Callas (Santuzza), Giuseppe di Stefano (Turiddu), Rolando Panerai (Alfio), Anna Maria Canali (Lola), Ebe Ticozzi (Lucia), Maria Callas (Nedda), Giuseppe di Stefano (Canio), Tito Gobbi (Tonio), Nicola Monti (Beppe), Nicola Monti (Silvio)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano,...
The sound here is much more confined than on the Karajan set, though more immediate. Serafin conducts swifter-moving performances, yet ones quite as notable as Karajan's for pointing up relevant... —
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Bellini: I Puritani
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Rolando Panerai
Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tullio Serafin
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Maria Callas (Leonora), Rolando Panerai (Il Conte di Luna), Giuseppe di Stefano (Manrico), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Luisa Villa (Ines), Renato Ercolani (Ruiz/Un messo), Giulio Mauri (Un vecchio zingaro)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro all Scala Milano, Herbert von...
Callas and Karajan took the world by the ears in the 1950s with this Il trovatore. Leonora was one of Callas's finest stage roles, and this recording is wonderfully intense, with a dark concentrated... —
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