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what treasure-trove it comprises...Not only do the BBC SO play with heartfelt commitment...but the 88-year-old Boult directs with unerring grip and thrusting vigour...So where's the rub? Well,... — More…
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Recorded live in the Royal Festival Hall 6th February 1961
Carlo Maria Giulini
This is a concert, not a theatre performance, and it is highly enjoyable. The BBC recording, in mono of course, is excellently balanced…Master and man are well matched Corena…is a fully rounded... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Collectionneur
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Ataúlfo Argenta conducts Beethoven & Smetana
Orquesta Nacional de España, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Gran Orquesta Sinfónica, Ataúlfo Argenta
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Rolando Panerai (Figaro), Teresa Berganza (Rosina), Luigi Alva (Count Almaviva), Fernando Corena (Dr Bartolo), Ivo Vinco (Don Basilio), Ronald Lewis (Fiorello), Josephine Veasey (Berta) & Robert Bowman (Un Ufficiale)
The Covent Garden Chorus & The Covent Garden Orchestra, Carlo Maria...
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Evgeny Svetlanov conducts Shostakovich & Tchaikovsky
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
The present disc has indisputable documentary significance. With Soviet bloc tanks newly arrived on the streets of Prague on August 21, 1968, the Shostakovich...risked being seen as 'oppressor's... — More…
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BBC Legends, Volume 4
Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Clifford Curzon (piano), Nadia Boulanger, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), John Ogdon (piano), Dennis Brain (horn), Paul Tortelier (cello), Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Klaus Tennstedt, Constantin Silvestri, Sir John Barbirolli,...
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Erich Kunz (Figaro), Irmgard Seefried (Susanna), Paul Schöffler (Count), Lisa Della Casa (Countess), Sena Jurinac (Cherubino), Oskar Czerwenka (Bartolo), Rosette Anday (Marcellina), Murray Dickie (Basilio), Anny Felbermayer (Barbarina), Walter Berry (Antonio)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,...
The singers here are vocally pre-eminent and the performance is alert, theatrically motivated and (at times) moving…Despite Böhm’s efforts there is sometimes a struggle between the old portentous... — More…
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The RPO revels in the swift changes of instrumentation and the brief, quiet solos are brought off tenderly. — More…
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In contrast with lithe, clean recordings by modern maestros, this Brahms First Symphony comes with dirt under the fingernails and an undeniable halo of majesty. From the apocalyptic opening... — More…
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the pianist’s irrepressible spirit shines through in Prokofiev’s Seventh Sonata and the Stravinsky pieces. — More…
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