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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Apollon Musagète RecommendedJennifer Johnston (Jocasta), Stuart Skelton (Oedipus), Gidon Saks (Creon) & Fanny Ardant (narrator)
Gentlemen of the Monteverdi Choir & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Johnston's superb interpretation lifts the whole performance up a couple of notches...But John Eliot Gardiner's conducting somehow misses the work's elusive power. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2014
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Building a Library, May 2018, Recommended Recording
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms
RecommendedIvo Zidek (Oedipus), Vera Soukupova (Jocasta), Zdenek Kroupa (Messenger), Karel Berman (Creon), Eduard Haken (Tiresias), Antonin Zlesak (Shepherd), Jean Desailly (Narrator)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir (=Czech Philharmonic Chorus), Karel Ancerl, Josef Veselka
Oedipus Rex, to words by Jean Cocteau, is one of Stravinsky's most compelling theatre pieces, a powerful drama that re-enacts the full force of a glorious high spot in ancient culture. The fusion... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2000, First Choice
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
RecommendedJessye Norman (Jocaste), Thomas Moser (Oedipus), Alexandru Ionita (Shepherd), Michel Piccoli (narrator)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Colin Davis
The pace is unerringly right, the rhythms never monotonously mechanical, the score's phrasing and accents scrupulously realized...Jocastas notoriously tend to unsteadiness, but Jessye Norman... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
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Valery Gergiev conducts Stravinsky
Dsd recording, Mariinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg December 2009 (Les Noces) Feb 2010 (Oedipus Rex)
Mlada Khudoley (soprano), Olga Savova (mezzo), Alexander Timchenko (tenor), Andrei Serov (bass), Svetlana Smolina, Yulia Zaichkina, Alexander Mogilevsky, Maxim Mogilevsky (pianos), Sergei Semishkur (Oedipus), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Jocasta), Evgeny Nikitin (Creon & Messenger), Mikhail Petrenko (Tiresias),...
Ekaterina Semenchuk...[is] the contralto with the biggest range and lustre since Bernstein's Troyanos, and Sergey Semishkur's Oedipus blends clarion authority with youthful pathos...all the right... — More…
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Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky
Richard Burgin (violin), Viktor Polatschek (clarinet), Raymond Allard (bassoon), Roger Voisin (trumpet), Jacob Raichman (trombone), Charles Smith (percussion), Georges Moleux (bass), Georges Laurent (flute), Manuel Valerio (clarinet), Ernst Panenka (bassoon), Marcel Lafosse (trumpet), Georges Mager...
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Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Stravinsky
RecommendedPaul Crossley (piano), Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), John Aler (tenor), Anne Sofie von Otter (Jocasta), Vinson Cole (Oedipus), Nicolai Gedda (Shepherd), Hans Sotin (Tiresias), Simon Estes (Messenger), Patrice Chéreau (narrator)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Los...
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, July 2019, Recommended Recording
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
RecommendedJessye Norman (Jocasta) & Peter Schreier (Oedipus), Bryn Terfel (Creon), Harry Peeters (Tiresias), Robert Swensen (Shepherd), Michio Tatara (Messenger)
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex Alec McCowen (narrator), Kerstin Meyer (contralto), Sir Peter Pears (tenor), Ryland Davies (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (baritone), Stafford Dean (bass), Kirstin Meyer (contralto)
The John Alldis Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
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