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Bayerische Staatsoper live
Live recordings of the Bavarian State Opera.
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
RecommendedBavarian State Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Brigitte Fassbaender (Octavian), Claire Watson (Marschallin), Karl Ridderbusch (Ochs), Lucia Popp (Sophie), Benno Kusche (Faninal), Annelie Waas (Marianne), David Thaw (Valzacchi), Margarethe Bence (Annina) & Gerhard Unger (Italian singer)
Bavarian State Opera, Carlos Kleiber
This performance from 1973 is notable for its extraordinary textural clarity, in this densest of scores, and its rhythmic vitality. The vocal hero of the occasion is Brigitte Fassbaender as... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'
RecommendedBayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber
If you are a connoisseur of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony...then this reissue is imperative. There is a caveat: the recording has been saved from an audio cassette version, the original master... —
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Building a Library, November 2011, First Choice
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Lucia Popp - Opera Highlights
Lucia Popp
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber, Karl Böhm, Wolfgang Sawallisch
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Julia Varady (Lisa), Elena Obraztsova (Countess), Vladimir Atlantov (Hermann), Alexander Voroshilo (Tomsky), Bodo Brinkmann (Yeletsky), Ludmila Shemchuk (Pauline), Yoshihisa Yamaji (Chekalinsky), Karl Helm (Surin), Ulrich Reß (Chaplitsky), Alfred Kuhn (Narumov), Friedrich Lenz (Master of Ceremonies),...
[Varady is] in radiant voice here, convincingly youthful and appealing at her first encounter with Herman, throwing caution to the wind as she goes to her death in the Neva. Vladimir Atlantov's... —
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Special offer. Lieder by Schubert, Strauss & Schoenberg
Bayerischen Staatsoper, Cuvilliés-Theater 23/7/1984
Lucia Popp (soprano) & Irwin Gage (piano)
The music of Richard Strauss suited Popp as if she were wearing a tailor-made gown. In that composer's three songs of Ophelia, the soprano places that hapless heroine vividly before us. Gage's... —
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Strauss, R: Die schweigsame Frau, Op. 80
Reri Grist, Lotte Schädle, Martha Mödl, Donald Grobe, Barry McDaniel, Kurt Böhme, Benno Kusche
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Wolfgang Sawallisch
That ardent and devoted Straussian, William Mann, slated this production (in Opera) when he saw it at its première in Munich in 1971 because the score was 'cut to ribbons', declaring that it... —
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Strauss, R: Feuersnot
Karl Ostertag, Max Proebstl, Maud Cunitz, Antonie Fahberg, Irmgarth Barth, Liselotte Nölser, Marcel Cordes, Georg Wieter, Karl Hoppe, Kieth Engen
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Rudolf Kempe
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Strauss, R: Die Ägyptische Helena
Leonie Rysanek, Annelies Kupper, Bernd Aldenhoff, Hermann Uhde, Richard Holm, Ira Malaniuk
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Joseph Keilberth
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