George London
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The Golden Ring: Great Scenes From Wagner's der Ring Des Nibelungen
Hetty Plumacher (contralto), Set Svanholm (tenor), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Ira Malaniuk (contralto), George London (baritone), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Oda Balsborg (soprano), Vera Schlosser (soprano), Claudia Hellmann (mezzo-soprano), Hans Hotter (bass (vocal)),...
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
George London (Wotan), Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka), Claire Watson (Freia), Set Svanholm (Loge), Waldemar Kmentt (Froh), Eberhard Wächter (Donner), Paul Kuen (Mime), Jean Madeira (Erda), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Walter Kreppel (Fasolt), Kurt Böhme (Fafner)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg...
I’m in no doubt that the sound quality is significantly better than Decca have been able to achieve on previous issues of this recording. There’s only one word for it: stunning. You really have... —
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The Record of Singing – The Very Best of Volumes 1-4
RecommendedFrom 1899 to the end of the 78 era: 1899-1952
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Historical
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Historical
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedDas Rheingold
George London (Wotan), Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka), Claire Watson (Freia), Set Svanholm (Loge), Waldemar Kmentt (Froh), Eberhard Wächter (Donner), Paul Kuen (Mime), Jean Madeira (Erda), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Walter Kreppel (Fasolt), Kurt Böhme (Fafner),...
a living, convincing, whole, holistic and vibrant experience is just what this edition delivers...it faithfully reflects the spaciousness and appropriate aura that would have been experienced... —
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Grammy Awards, 9th Awards (1966), Best Opera Recording
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Jon Vickers (tenor), George London (baritone), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Marie Collier (soprano), Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano), Gré Brouwenstijn (soprano), David Ward (bass), Rita Gorr (mezzo-soprano), Noreen Berry (mezzo-soprano), Maureen Guy (mezzo-soprano), Judith Pierce (soprano), Margreta...
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Bruno Walter conducts Brahms
Zino Francescatti (violin), Pierre Fournier (cello), Irmgard Seefried (soprano), George London (bass-baritone), Mildred Miller (contralto)
Columbia Syphony Orchestra, Occidental College Concert Choir, New York Philharmonic, Westminster Choir, Bruno Walter
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Grace Bumbry (mezzo), Jess Thomas (tenor), George London (bass)
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Karl Bohm
In the firm momentum, sleek moulding and Classically wind-heavy balancing of the inner movements may be detected the ghostly hand of Richard Strauss upon his friend’s shoulder. In the second... —
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Collectionneur
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
George London (Dutchman), Josef Greindl (Daland), Leonie Rysanek (Senta), Fritz Uhl (Erik), Res Fischer (Mary), Georg Paskuda (Steuermann)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Sawallisch
A blistering mono performance live from Bayreuth. Wolfgang Sawallisch takes no musical prisoners as Leonie Rysanek tears through Senta, all but incinerating George London’s Dutchman. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre: Act 1, etc.
RecommendedBirgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), George London (Wotan), Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Gré Brouwenstijn (Sieglinde), David Ward (Hunding), Rita Gorr (Fricka)
London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
…an exciting, eloquent, lyrical, an always vital account of the opera and draws splendid playing, of which the conductor must have been proud, and we should be, from the London Symphony Orchestra,... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492
RecommendedRoberta Peters (soprano), Giorgio Tozzi (baritone), Fernando Corena (bass), Sandra Warfield (mezzo-soprano), Rosalind Elias (soprano), George London (baritone), Gabor Carelli (tenor), Lisa Della Casa (soprano), Annie Felbermeyer (soprano), Ljubomir Pantscheff (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener...
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Grammy Awards, 2nd Awards (1959), Best Opera Recording
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