Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester
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Every operetta buff will want this, and I suspect everyone else will simply be swept along by the joie de vivre and sheer melodic flair of this underrated – but unarguable – classic of its genre. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Special offer. Straus, O: The Chocolate Soldier
Johannes Martin Kranzle (Bumerli), Caroline Stein (Nadina Popoff), Helmut Berger (Kasimir Popoff), John Dickie (Alexius Spiridoff), Martina Borst (Mascha), Gertraud Wagner (Aurelia Popoff), Walter Raffeiner (Massakroff)
Händel Collegium Köln, Siegfried Köhler
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Special offer. Antonio Janigro - The rare Cello Recordings
RecommendedAntonio Janigro (cello), Gunhild Stappenbec, Paul Badura-Skoda (piano), Jean Fournier (violin), Jan Natermann (piano), Stefano Passaggio (viola), Jörg Demus (piano), Milton Preves (viola), John Weicher (violin), Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI, Zagreb Soloists, Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti...
Janigro was a key figure in the musical life of the Balkans. He didn’t have Tortelier’s expressive sound, but was clearly a great energiser – witness the tracks recorded with the Zagreb Soloists,... —
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Building A Library, September 2024, Recommended Recording (Don Quixote)
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Dvořák: The King and the Charcoal Burner (Král a Uhlír)
Dalibor Jenis (King Matyáš), Peter Mikuláš (Matěj), Michelle Breedt (Anna), Lívia Aghová (Liduška), Michal Lehotsky (Jenik), Markus Schäfer (Jindřich)
Prague Chamber Choir, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln & WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Gerd Albrecht
Dvorák's delightful The King and the CharcoalBurner was the second opera that he wrote and the first to be staged. In its first form it was abandoned during rehearsal as being too complex and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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Jacques Offenbach - Cello Concertos
RecommendedGuido Schiefen (cello)
WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Helmuth Froschauer, David de Villiers, Gerard Oskamp
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Haydn: Opera Gala
Simone Kermes (soprano), Chen Reiss (soprano), Rainer Trost (tenor), Thomas Michael Allen (tenor), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Paul Armin Edelmann (baritone), Jürgen Sacher (baritone), Ivan Paley Bass (bass)
WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Markus Poschner & Manuel Hernandez-Silva
I suspect many will be drawn to the set by the participation of Simone Kermes. They are unlikely to be disappointed; the role of Vespina allows full rein to Kermes’s formidable dramatic talent,... —
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Sibelius & Bruch: Violin Concertos, Schubert: Violin Sonata
Gerhard Taschner (violin), Hans Altmann (piano)
Cologne RSO, Berlin PO, Herbert Sandberg, Hermann Abendroth
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Shostakovich: Song Cycles
Wladimor Kasatschuk (tenor), Anatolij Kotscherga (bass), Anatolij Babykin (bass)
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Michail Jurowski
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