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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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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
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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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... —
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Adrianne Pieczonka (Die Marschallin), Franz Hawlata (Baron Ochs), Angelika Kirchschlager (Oktavian), Franz Grundheber (Faninal), Miah Persson (Sophie), Piotr Beczala (Italian Tenor)
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Semyon Bychkov (conductor) & Robert...
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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 —
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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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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier: orchestral excerpts
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Tara Erraught (Octavian), Kate Royal (The Marschallin), Lars Woldt (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), Michael Kraus (Herr von Faninal), Miranda Keys (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Christopher Gillett (Valzacchi) & Helene Schneiderman (Annina)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus,...
As one would expect from Jones, there's much that is striking in the staging...The LPO play with considerable virtuosity for Robin Ticciati, whose reading is clean and unsentimental. Straussians... —
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Opera, September 2015, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Tara Erraught (Octavian), Kate Royal (The Marschallin), Teodora Gheorghiu (Sophie), Lars Woldt (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), Michael Kraus (Herr von Faninal), Miranda Keys (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Christopher Gillett (Valzacchi) & Helene Schneiderman (Annina)
London Philharmonic Orchestra...
As one would expect from Jones, there's much that is striking in the staging...The LPO play with considerable virtuosity for Robin Ticciati, whose reading is clean and unsentimental. Straussians... —
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Opera, September 2015, Recording of the Month
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