Gottlob Frick
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Donna Anna), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Donna Elvira), Eberhard Wächter (Don Giovanni), Giuseppe Taddei (Leporello), Gottlob Frick (Il Commendatore), Luigi Alva (Don Ottavio), Piero Cappuccilli (Masetto), Graziella Sciutti (Zerlina), Heinrich Schmidt (harpsichord)
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On CD the classic Giulini EMI set, lovingly remastered, sets the standard by which all other recordings have come to be judged. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, as Elvira, emerges as a dominant figure... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, July 2018, Also recommended
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
RecommendedBirgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Gottlob Frick (Hagen), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Gunther), Claire Watson (Gutrune), Christa Ludwig (Waltraute)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Nicolai Gedda (Tamino), Gundula Janowitz (Pamina), Walter Berry (Papageno), Lucia Popp (Königin der Nacht), Gottlob Frick (Sarastro), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Marga Höffgen (Drei Damen), Ruth-Margret Pütz (Papagena), Gerhard Unger (Monostatos), Karl Liebl, Franz Crass (Zwei Geharnischten),...
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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: Die Walküre
Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Hans Hotter (Wotan), Régine Crespin (Sieglinde), James King (Siegmund), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Gottlob Frick (Hunding)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
RecommendedChrista Ludwig (Leonore), Jon Vickers (Florestan), Walter Berry (Don Pizarro), Gottlob Frick (Rocco), Ingeborg Hallstein (Marzelline), Gerhard Unger (Jaquino), Franz Crass (Don Fernando)
Philharmonia Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
Whilst I love the dramatic energy of Karajan’s (thrilling but rough-round-the-edges) 1962 Fidelio, Ludwig sounds more secure in terms of diction and intonation on this studio recording from... —
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Elisabeth Grümmer (Elsa), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Telramund), Gottlob Frick (Heinrich), Otto Wiener (Herald)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe
Kempe gives this music a mystical edge his rivals lack, and he does so with a painter's sense of colour. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Winner
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Special offer. Egk: Die Irische Legende
Inge Borkh, Margarete Klose, László Szemere, Kurt Böhme, Walter Berry, Gottlob Frick
Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, George Szell
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Wagner: Die Walküre
RecommendedJames King (tenor), Régine Crespin (soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Hans Hotter (bass), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Ernst Wiemann (bass), Vera Schlosser (soprano), Berit Lindholm (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Helen Watts (contralto), Helga Dernesch (soprano),...
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Grammy Awards, 9th Awards (1966), Best Opera Recording
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Smetana: The Bartered Bride
RecommendedMarcel Cordes, Nada Puttar, Pilar Lorengar, Gottlob Frick & Fritz Wunderlich
Bamberger Symphoniker & RIAS-Kammerchor, Rudolf Kempe
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Building a Library, May 2023, German Version
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