Strauss, R - Der Rosenkavalier
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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... — More…
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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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RecommendedElisabeth Schwarzkopf (Marschallin), Christa Ludwig (Octavian), Teresa Stich-Randall (Sophie), Otto Edelmann (Ochs), Eberhard Wächter (Faninal), Ljuba Welitsch (Marianne), Paul Kuen (Valzacchi/Tierhändler), Kerstin Meyer (Annina), Nicolai Gedda (Italian Singer)
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra,...
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Remastered CD
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Camilla Nylund (Marschallin), Michele Losier (Octavian), Nadine Sierra (Sophie), Gunther Groissbock (Baron Ochs), Roman Trekel (Faninal), Anna Samuil (Marianne), Staatskapelle Berlin, Zubin Mehta, André Heller
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Krassimira Stoyanova (Marschallin), Sophie Koch (Octavian), Mojca Erdmann (Sophie), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Annina), Günther Groissböck (Ochs), Adrian Eröd (Faninal), Kresimir Spicer (Valzacchi), Stefan Pop (Italian Singer)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst
Hooray for director Harry Kupfer!...[he] knows that Rosenkavalier is a supreme exercise in nostalgia...This is also Freud's Vienna. Stoyanova's Marschallin is a scrupulous analyst of her own... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Opera Choice
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Regine Crespin (Marschallin), Yvonne Minton (Octavian), Helen Donath (Sophie), Manfred Jungwirth (Ochs), Otto Wiener (Faninal), Murray Dickie (Valzacchi), Anne Howells (Annina), Luciano Pavarotti (Italian Tenor), Emmy Loose (Marianne Leitmetzerin)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti
Still one of the truly great recordings. Solti's conducting is refreshing, more champagne than schmaltz, yet not unduly driven, and his singers are superb, not just Crespin, Minton and Jungwirth... — More…
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Ann Murray (Octavian), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Marschallin), Kurt Moll (Baron Ochs), Alan Opie (Herr von Faninal), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Marianne Leitmetzerin), John Dobson (Major-domo to the Marschallin), Gordon Sandison (Notary), Paul Crook (Valzacchi) & Leah-Marian Jones...
Moll is a genuinely basso profundo Ochs, with the repartee between him and 'cousin' Resi in Act 1 a highlight...[Murray] blends touchingly with Bonney, and sets the Act II quarrel alight. — More…
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Recorded 1951
Margarete Baumer (Marschallin), Tiana Lemnitz (Octavian), Ursula Richter (Sophie), Kurt Böhme (Ochs), Hans Löbel (Faninal), Franz Sautter (Valzacchi), Emilie Walter-Sacks (Annina), Werner Liebing (Ein Sänger), Angela Kolniak (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Erich Handel (Ein Notar)
Staatskapelle Dresden,...
the recording teems with lovely little details from a fine extended cast of seasoned pros.. A Rosenkavalier that, though certainly rough around the edges in terms of vocalism, gets the drama... — More…
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Lotte Lehmann (soloist), Elisabeth Schumann (soloist), Maria Olczewska (soloist), Richard Mayr (soloist), William Wernigk (soloist), Richard Strauss, Alfred Wallenstein (soloist), René Pollain (soloist)
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Phiharmonkier, Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New...
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Lotte Lehmann (Marschallin), Richard Mayr (Baron Ochs), Maria Olszewska (Octavian), Elisabeth Schumann (Sophie), Viktor Madin (Faninal), Hermann Gallos (Valzacchi), Bella Paalen (Annina), Aenne Michalsky (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Karl Ettl (Polizeikommissar)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert...
The performance remains peerless, with all four principal soloists at their peak — More…
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Margarethe Siems: Königlische Sächsische Hofopernsängerin (1903-1911)
Margarethe Siems (soprano), Desider Aranyi (tenor), Desider Zador (baritone), Gertrude Forstel (soprano), Minnie Nast (soprano), Eva Helga Bertha von der Osten (soprano)
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