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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Kölner Rundfunkchor & Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Dimitri Mitropoulos
[a] deeply felt Requiem, still high-voltage despite mono sound. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Evgeny Svetlanov conducts Rachmaninov & Prokofiev
Daniil Shtoda (tenor), Elena Prokina (soprano) & Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Alfreda Hodgson (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
[Svetlanov's] right on top of his game in this performance and so too are the Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra.The music leaps out of the loudspeakers right from the start...This is a tremendous,... — More…
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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Elisabeth Grümmer (soprano) & Hermann Prey (baritone)
Kölner Rundfunkchor & Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Otto Klemperer
Klemperer underlines the grand architectural proportions of the German Requiem while piercing close to its spiritual heart...the performance itself builds in monumental intensity from a fairly... — More…
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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts Debussy & Mahler
Lucretia West (contralto)
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Dimitri Mitropoulos
These performances, taken from 1960 radio broadcasts, were the last Mitropoulos gave. During the symphony’s huge first movement, he suffered a heart attack; and, though he went on conducting,... — More…
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William Steinberg
Heather Harper (soprano), Julia Hamari (alto), Sven Olof Eliasson (tenor), Peter Meven (bass), Wolfgang Marschner (violin)
Kölner Rundfunkchor & Sinfonie-Orchester, William Steinberg
In Steinberg's Gloria, the choir's accent on 'hominibus' is just right: quiet, not overdone...Steinberg hammers out 'consubstantialem Patri' in fine style...Peter Meven intones the the opening... — More…
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Klaus Tennstedt conducts Mahler
Waltraud Meier (mezzo)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eton College Boys Choir & London Philharmonic Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
This is not the spick and span, vibrato-lite Mahler somewhat in vogue today...yet something special is going on, especially when the stick is discarded for much of the long-breathed, old-world,... — More…
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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducts Mahler
Bela Dekany (violin), Teresa Cahill (soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor) & Gwynne Howell (bass)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, with BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Singers, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Stefania Woytowicz (soprano) & Anny Delorie (contralto)
Kölner Rundfunkchor & Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, William Steinberg
An interesting and useful document of Steinberg's work — 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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Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
As the Academy of St Martin in the Fields continues on into its sixth decade...this collection provides a worthwhile reminder of its length of service and the range of its founder...Despite... — More…
