Orfeo
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The voice has body, especially in the upper middle register, and an exciting ring on top. — More…
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Opera, August 2008, Recording of the Month
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Martin: Der Cornet - Vinyl Edition
Marjana Lipovsek (contralto)
Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lothar Zagrosek
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R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
RecommendedAnne Schwanewilms (soprano), with Jutta Böhnert (Sophie) & Regina Richter (Octavian)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Markus Stenz
There’s some wonderful singing [in the Capriccio extract]...She’s also excellent as Arabella. At the start of the solo her singing is touching and with a hint of vulnerability to it. Later...she... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th July 2012
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Every detail of Tchaikovsky's intricate and inventive score is captured in this live recording made in Symphony Hall's superb acoustic, with the CBSO players on top of their game. This is, more... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Disc of the month
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A splendid recital from a young soprano who rises with skill and flair to the music's varied challenges. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Strauss, R: Elektra
Regina Resnik (Klytämnestra), Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Leonie Rysanek (Chrysothemis), Wolfgang Windgassen (Aegisth), Eberhard Waechter (Orest), Fredrick Guthrie (Der Pfleger der Orest), Margareta Sjöstedt (Vertraute), Margarita Lilova (Schleppträgerin), Gerhard Unger (Junger Diener), Herbert Lackner...
[Nilsson] is achingly tender in the recognition scene with Orestes, vividly obsequious as she lures Aegisthus to his death and tireless in her final, fatal dance...like Nilsson, [Resnik] really... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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Irmgard Seefried
Vienna 1943-1952
Irmgard Seefried (soprano) with Leopold Ludwig, Viktor Graef & Erik Werba (piano)
A lovely collection: if you had to choose a single disc to represent Seefried in song you could not do better than this...Her personal warmth permeates the voice, and in these recordings one... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Muller-Schott has all the technical resources at his deposal, and opens the First Suite with just the right weight and poise...what Schott brings to all the Suites is a sharpness and power reminiscent... — More…
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Massenet: Werther
Brigitte Fassbaender (Charlotte), Marianne Seibel (Sophie), Plácido Domingo (Werther), Hans Günther Nöcker (Albert), Keith Engen (Le Bailli), Karl Christian Kohn (Johann), Georg Paskuda (Schmidt), Hermann Sapell (Brühlmann), Helena Jungwirth (Kätchen)
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Chor...
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Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedRobert Gambill, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Robert Lloyd & Edith Mathis
ORF Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Peter Schreier
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Building a Library, March 2000, Also Recommended
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