Galina Vishnevskaya
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
RecommendedGalina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ)
London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten
Britten was writing personally for three muses who had all shared the wartime experience...His incandescent commitment to pacificism and horror at the failure of humanism blazes forth...As you... —
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Building a Library, November 2009, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Britten: War Requiem
Recommended2023 remastering
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Melos Ensemble, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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Special offer. Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91
Galina Vishnevskaya (Natasha Rostova), Nicolai Gedda (Anatol Kuragin), Lajos Miller (Prince Andrei Bolkonsky), Dimiter Petkov (Count Ilya Rostov), Stefania Toczyska (Helena Bezukhova), Wieslaw Ochman (Count Pytor Bezukhov), Mira Zakai (Princess Maria Bolkonsky), Eduard Tumagian (Napoleon Bonaparte)
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A virtue of this recording is that the work is given complete...all this material, diverse in style as it is, adds up in performance to an impressive whole. To no small degree this is thanks... —
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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
RecommendedGalina Vishnevskaya (Katerina), Nicolai Gedda (Sergey), Dimiter Petkov (Boris), Werner Krenn (Zinovi), Robert Tear (Shabby Peasant), Taru Valjakka (Aksinya), Birgit Finnilä (Sonyetka)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Mstislav Rostropovich
the inimitable Galina Vishnevskaya makes the title role her own, ably assisted by Nicolai Gedda as her illicit lover Sergei. —
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Verdi: Requiem
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Nina Isakova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Ivanovsky (tenor) & Ivan Petrov (bass)
State Academy Chorus & Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de l’ORTF, Igor Markevitch
one of the great interpretations, intensely felt and marvellously acute in its understanding of the balance between the score's devotional and dramatic elements. The playing and choral singing... —
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12 Audiobiographies of Great Composers By Jörg Handstein (in German)
Udo Wachtveitl (narrator), Albrecht Schuch (narrator), Shenja Lacher (narrator), Adam Gaigl (narrator), Florian von Manteuffel (narrator), Stefan Hunstein (narrator), Katja Schild (narrator), Folkert Dücker (narrator), Anna Greiter (narrator), Günter Holzhausen, Max Hanft, Alexej Gorlatch, Bernhard...
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Nicolai Gedda - The Golden Voice
Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Gerald Moore (piano), Anneliese Rothenberger (soprano), Mario Sereni (bass-baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano), Mady Mesplé (soprano), Alexis Weissenberg (piano), Edda Moser (soprano), Jan Eyron (piano), Andréa Guiot (soprano), André Mallabrera (tenor),...
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Nicolai Ghiaurov (Boris), Olivera Miljakovic (Fyodor), Aleksei Maslennikov (Shuisky/Simpleton), Martti Talvela (Pimen), Ludovic Spiess (Grigory/False Dmitry), Anton Diakov (Varlaam), Nadejda Dobrianova (Xenia), Galina Vishnevskaya (Marina)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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Special offer. BBC Legends Volume 1
Joyce Barker (Magna Peccatrix), Beryl Hatt (Mater Gloriosa), Agnes Giebel (Una Poenitentium), Kerstin Meyer (Mulier Samaritana), Helen Watts (Maria Aegyptiaca), Kenneth Neate (Doctor Marianus), Alfred Orda (Pater Ecstaticus), Arnold van Mill (Pater Profundus), Emil Gilels (piano), Zinka Milanov (soprano),...
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Galina Vishnevskaya
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Bach Choir, Melos Ensemble, Benjamin Britten
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