Hildegard Behrens
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Strauss, R: Die Frau ohne Schatten
RecommendedHildegard Behrens (Die Färberin), Julia Varady (Die Kaiserin), Plácido Domingo (Der Kaiser), José van Dam (Barak), Reinhild Runkel (Die Amme), Sumi Jo (Stimme des Falken)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti
This was the most ambitious project on which Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal collaborated. It's both fairy tale and allegory with a score that's Wagnerian in its scale and breadth.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Opera
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Grammy Awards, 35th Awards (1992), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 35th Awards (1992), Best Opera Recording
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Hildegard Behrens, Rene Kollo, Peter Meven
Bayerischen Rundfunks Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik
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Berg: Wozzeck
RecommendedFranz Grundheber (Wozzeck), Hildegard Behrens (Marie), Walter Raffeiner (Tambourmajor), Philip Langridge (Andres), Heinz Zednik (Hauptmann), Aage Haugland (Doktor), Anna Gonda (Margret), Peter Jelosits (Narr), Alfred Sramek (1.Handwerkbursch), Alexander Maly (2.Handwerkbursch)
Vienna Boys Choir,...
A live recording, in every sense of the word.
The cast is uniformly excellent, with Grundheber good both at the wretched pathos of Wozzeck's predicament and his helpless bitterness, and Behrens... —Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2015, First Choice
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Wagner: Die Walküre
RecommendedHildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde), Jessye Norman (Sieglinde), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Gary Lakes (Siegmund), James Morris (Wotan), Kurt Moll (Hunding)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
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Grammy Awards, 32nd Awards (1989), Best Opera Recording
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The Liszt Collection
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano), Shura Cherkassky, John Ogdon & Brenda Lucas (piano), Vinson Cole (tenor), Roberto Szidon (piano), Lazar Berman (piano), Alice Sara Ott (piano), Jorge Bolet (piano), Wilhelm Kempff (piano), Nikita Magaloff (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker,...
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th October 2011
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Building a Library, April 2013, First Choice
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New. Strauss, R: Salome, Op. 54
Gerd Nienstedt (bass), Heljä Angervo (contralto), Kurt Rydl (bass), Wiesław Ochman (tenor), Helge von Bömches (bass), José van Dam (bass-baritone), Hildegard Behrens (soprano), Horst Nitsche (tenor), Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano), Karl-Walter Böhm (tenor), David Knutson (tenor), Erich Kunz (baritone),...
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Special offer. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Peter Hofmann (Tristan), Hildegard Behrens (Isolde), Yvonne Minton (Brangaene), Hans Sotin (Marke), Bernd Weikl (Kurwenal), Heribert Steinbach (Melot), Heinz Zednik (Hirt), Raimund Grumbach (Steuerman), Thomas Moser (Stimme eines jungen Seemanns)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks,...
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Strauss, R: Elektra
Hildegard Behrens (Elektra), Christa Ludwig (Clytemnestra), Nadine Secunde (Chrysothemis), Ragnar Ulfung (Aegisth), Jorma Hynninen (Orest)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
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The Classic 100 - Love
Teddy Tahu Rhodes (baritone, bass-baritone), David Hobson (tenor), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano), Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Nicole Car (soprano), Antoinette Halloran (soprano), Erin Wall (soprano), Victoria Lambourn (mezzo-soprano), Milica Ilic (soprano), Rosario La Spina (tenor), Barbara...
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Hildegard Behrens (Leonore), James King (Florestan), Kurt Moll (Rocco), Donald McIntyre (Pizarro), Lucia Popp (Marzelline), Norbert Orth (Jaquino), Friedrich Lenz (First Prisoner), Hans Wilbrink (Second Prisoner), Nikolaus Hillebrand (Fernando)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor der Bayerischen...
