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Shostakovich - Songs & Operas
Luba Organosova (soprano), Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Larissa Dyadkova (mezzo-soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Elena Zaremba (contralto), Philip Langridge (tenor), Ilya Levinsky (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Sergei Leiferkus (bass) &...
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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier
Plácido Domingo, Renata Scotto, Sherrill Milnes, Jean Kraft, Maria Ewing, Allan Monk, Enzo Dara
National Philharmonic Orchestra, The John Alldis Choir, James Levine
Choosing between this recording and the Decca Chailly (currently available only as a download), it might seem sensible to start with the tenor in the title-role, and here a strong inclination... —
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Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies
RecommendedSierra Boggess (soprano), Anna Jane Casey (mezzo-soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Maria Ewing (soprano/mezzo), Julian Ovenden (baritone) & David Pittsinger (bass-baritone)
The John Wilson Orchestra & Maida Vale Singers, John Wilson
the endless counter-melodies, orchestral details and underlying motifs that Wilson teases out really do throw the scores into glorious technicolour...The other great pleasure of the disc is... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th October 2012
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedThomas Allen (Don Giovanni), Carol Vaness (Donna Anna), Maria Ewing (Donna Elvira), Elizabeth Gale (Zerlina), Keith Lewis (Don Ottavio), Richard van Allan (Leporello), John Rawnsley (Masetto), Dimitri Kavrakos (Il Commendatore)
Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard...
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Opera
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The Debussy Edition
RecommendedFranklin Cohen (clarinet), Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano), Vera Badings (harp), Krystian Zimerman (piano), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Zoltan Kocsis (piano), Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos), Augustin Dumay (violin), Maria-Joao Pires (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello),...
Of the compilations released to mark the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy's birth this year, this is the most treasurable. As a survey of the music of perhaps of the greatest 20th-century... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd April 2012
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Simon Rattle Conducts Ravel
Cécile Ousset (piano), Peter Walden (french horn), Andrei Gavrilov (piano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), José van Dam (bass-baritone), Annick Massis (soprano), François Le Roux (bass-baritone), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Mojca...
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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Maria Ewing (Katerina), Aage Haugland (Boris), Sergei Larin (Sergei), Philip Langridge (Zinovi), Elena Zaremba (Sonyetka), Kurt Moll (Old Convict)
Orchestre et choeurs de l’Opera Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
Chung's version of Shostakovich's sardonic tragedy still packs tremendous punch —
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Bernstein: Mendelssohn - Mozart
Leonard Bernstein (piano), Peter Schmidl (clarinet), Wolfgang Seeliger (chorus master), Arleen Auger (soprano), Frank Lopardo (tenor), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass (vocal)), Friedemann Winklhofer (organ), Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano), Marie McLaughlin (soprano), Jerry Hadley (tenor), Maria Ewing...
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Maria Ewing (Mélisande), François Le Roux (Pelléas), José van Dam (Golaud), Jean-Philippe Courtis (Arkel), Christa Ludwig (Genevieve), Patrizia Pace (Yniold), Rudolf Mazzola (Doctor)
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
this is a superb issue that challenges even the finest so far. The warmth of the VP0 strings in the very first bars holds out a promise that is never disappointed: the orchestra, always subtle... —
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