Kathleen Battle
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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61
RecommendedKathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, Judi Dench, Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd November 2009
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Building a Library, June 2005, First Choice
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Grammy Awards, 35th Awards (1992), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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New Years Eve Concert 1987
Recommendedincluding works by Josef Strauss & Johann Strauss
Kathleen Battle
Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Poulenc: Gloria, Organ Concerto & Concert champêtre
RecommendedKathleen Battle, Simon Preston (organ), Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus & Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
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Building a Library, October 2001, First Choice
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Rossini: The Barber of Seville (highlights)
Plácido Domingo (Figaro), Frank Lopardo (Il Conte Almaviva), Kathleen Battle (Rosina), Lucio Gallo (Dr. Bartolo), Ruggero Raimondi (Don Basilio), Gabriele Sima (Berta), Carlos Chausson (Fiorello), Goran Simic (Un Ufficiale)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedKathleen Battle (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo)
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine
Levine's 1989 Salzburg account would seem to have been fashioned with the delicate sensibilities of the glamorous festival audience in mind. It's a reading which dutifully pushes most of the... —
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
RecommendedAnna Tomowa-Sintow (Ariadne), Agnes Baltsa (Der Komponist), Kathleen Battle (Zerbinetta), Gary Lakes (Bacchus), Hermann Prey (Musiklehrer), Urban Malmberg (Harlekin), Barbara Bonney (Najade), Helga Müller-Molinari (Dryade), Dawn Upshaw (Echo), Kurt Rydl (Truffaldin), Otto Schenk (Haushofmeister)
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Grammy Awards, 30th Awards (1987), Best Opera Recording
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor 'Resurrection'
Kathleen Battle (soprano), Maureen Forrester (contralto), Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Chorus, Leonard Slatkin
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Handel: Semele
RecommendedKathleen Battle (Semele), Marilyn Horne (Juno/Ino), Samuel Ramey (Cadmus/Somnus), John Aler (Jupiter), Michael Chance (Athamas), Neil Mackie (Apollo), Sylvia McNair (Iris)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
[The recording] turns away from current fashion in using modern rather than period instruments, but the balance of advantage is in its favour. Nelson's performance is briskly paced, with rhythms... —
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Grammy Awards, 36th Awards (1993), Best Opera Recording
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Luciano Pavarotti (Riccardo), Margaret Price (Amelia), Renato Bruson (Renato), Christa Ludwig (Ulrica), Kathleen Battle (Oscar), Peter Weber (Silvano), Robert Lloyd (Samuele), Malcolm King (Tom), Alexander Oliver (Un giudice)
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti
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