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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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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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the pianist’s irrepressible spirit shines through in Prokofiev’s Seventh Sonata and the Stravinsky pieces. — More…
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Verdi: Falstaff
Fernando Corena (Sir John Falstaff), Juan Oncina, Kevin Miller (Fenton), Walter Monachesi (Ford), Dermot Troy (Dr. Caius), Daniel McCosham (Bardolpho), Marco Stefanoni (Pistola), Anna Maria Rovere (Alice Ford), Eugenia Ratti (Nanetta), Fernanda Cadoni (Meg Page) & Oralia Dominguez (Mistress Quickly)
Glyndebourne...
An ideal ensemble is headed by Corena's robustly restrained Falstaff and Giulini, livelier than in later years — More…
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Puccini: Tosca
Renata Tebaldi (Tosca), Ferruccio Tagliavini (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Michael Langdon (Angelotti), Howell Glynne (Sacristan), David Tree (Spoletta), Ronald Lewis (Sciarrone), Noreen Berry (Shepherd) & Rhydderch Davies (Jailer)
Covent Garden Chorus & Orchestra, Francesco...
Tebaldi's heady tone is equal to every one of the role's musical demands, while dramatically she proves an engaged and potent heroine...[Gobbi's Scarpia] as always is dramatically thrilling;... — More…
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Verdi: La Traviata
Maria Callas (Violetta), Cesare Valletti (Alfredo), Mario Zanasi (Giorgio Germont), Marie Collier (Flora), Forbes Robinson (Barone Douphol), Ronald Lewis (Marchese d'Obigny), Leah Roberts (Annina), Dermot Troy (Gastone), David Kelly (Dottore Grenvil)
Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus,...
though it has been issued on various labels, this ICA Classics recording is the best I have heard...after Act 1, in which [Callas] still does many wonderful things, her performance is on a level... — More…
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Verdi: Requiem
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Nina Isakova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Ivanovsky (tenor) & Ivan Petrov (bass)
State Academy Chorus & Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de l’ORTF, Igor Markevitch
one of the great interpretations, intensely felt and marvellously acute in its understanding of the balance between the score's devotional and dramatic elements. The playing and choral singing... — More…
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Cherubini: Medea
Maria Callas (Medea), Jon Vickers (Giasone), Fiorenza Cossotto (Neris), Nicola Zaccaria (Creonte), Joan Carlyle (Glauce), Mary Wells (First Maidservant), Elizabeth Rust (Second Maidservant) & David Allen (Captain of the Guard)
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno
[This version] would have small claims to be authentic...What is authentic is the passion and intensity that Callas brings to would become one of her greatest roles...The supporting cast is... — More…
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