Strauss, R - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Op. 60
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Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos
RecommendedSung in English: translation by Christopher Cowell
Christine Brewer (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Robert Dean Smith (Bacchus/The Tenor), Alice Coote (Composer), Gillian Keith (Zerbinetta), Stephen Fry (Major-Domo), Alan Opie (Music Master), John Graham-Hall (Dancing Master/Scaramuccio), Roderick Williams (Harlequin), Matthew Rose (Truffaldino), Wynne Evans...
Brewer's luscious Ariadne had to be captured on disc...There's another essential performance from Alice Coote...with unflinchingly full top notes that few other genuine mezzos possess...I've... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Opera Choice
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Building A Library, September 2025, Recommended Recording
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Jessye Norman sings Strauss: Five Songs & Salome
Jessye Norman (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
Norman adds lustre to the already burnished orchestral playing in five songs, familiar from her studio version with Masur. Interpretatively there’s not much to choose between them, but she’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Ein Heldenlebenwas always a favourite party-piece of Herbert von Karajan, so the challenge to his successor, Simon Rattle, is all the more formidable.
It says much for Rattle's achievement in... —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, October 2019, Also Recommended
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Special offer. Strauss
Andreas Fosdal (oboe), Jakob Keiding (horn), Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Toshiyuki Kamioka
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A fine addition to the Strauss discography. —
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Anshel Brusilow Conducts the Chamber Symphony Of Philadelphia
The Complete RCA Album Collection
Lili Chookasian (contralto), Robert Page (chorus master), James Welch (chorus master), James Kurtz (chorus master), Stuart Canin, Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia, Members of the Fordham University Glee Club, Members of the Thomas More College Women's Chorale, Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia Chorale,...
a fascinating snapshot of the ensemble. —
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Special offer. Strauss: Der Burger als Edelmann & Tanzsuite
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
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Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Peter Ustinov (singer/speaker, narrator), Bodil Arnesen (soprano), Christa Mayer (mezzo-soprano), Florian Cerny (baritone), Munich Chamber Orchestra, via-nova-Chor München, Karl Anton Rickenbacher
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