Ryland Davies
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Leonora), Placido Domingo (Manrico), Sherrill Milnes (Il Conte di Luna), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Ferrando), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Ines), Ryland Davies (Ruiz)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
The Leonora of Leontyne Price is the high point of the Mehta recording: her velvety, sensuous articulation of what's certainly an 'immenso, eterno amor' is entirely distinctive and dramatically... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo)
Chorus & Orchestra of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge
As Callas's star waned so Joan Sutherland's rose. Her Lucia is different, moving the heart through beauty of tone. Sutherland recorded the role four times - the first two have vocal freshness... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2010
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Special offer. Britten: Peter Grimes
Glenn Winslade (Peter Grimes), Janice Watson (Ellen Orford), Anthony Michaels-Moore (Balstrode), Jill Grove (Auntie), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), James Rutherford (Swallow), Christopher Gillett (Bob Boles), Nathan Gunn (Ned Keene)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
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Special offer. Mozart - Great Choral Works
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
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Building a Library, Highly Recommended
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Digitally remastered
Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo), Ryland Davies (Arturo), Huguette Tourangeau (Alisa), Pier Francesco Poli (Normanno)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge
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Special offer. Janáček: The Makropulos Case
Angela Denoke (Emilia Marty), Raymond Very (Albert Gregor), Peter Hoare (Vitek), Jurgita Adamonyte (Krista), Johan Reuter (Jaroslav Prus), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Dr. Kolenaty), Ales Briscein (Janek)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Esa-Pekka Salonen
The vocal performances are nearly all compelling. The men - Janacek's usual weak and neurotic bunch - are entirely believable...Both the lead and female roles are remarkably complete. Jurgita... —
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Special offer. Exsultate Jubilate
Kiri te Kanawa
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
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Massenet: Esclarmonde
Joan Sutherland (Esclarmonde), Huguette Tourangeau (Parséis), Clifford Grant (L'Empereur Phorcas), Giacomo Aragall (Le Chevalier Roland), Luois Quilico (L'Evêque de Blois), Ryland Davies (Enéas) & Robert Lloyd (Cléomer, Roi de France)
John Alldis Choir & National Philharmonic Orchestra,...
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Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Carlo), Montserrat Caballé (Elisabetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Filippo II), Shirley Verrett (Eboli), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Giovanni Foiani (Il Grande Inquisitore), Simon Estes (Un Frate), Delia Wallis (Tebaldo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Carlo Maria Giulini
From the day that Giulini conducted the now legendary production of Don Carlo at Covent Garden in 1958, a recording of the opera by him looked a must. In fact, it was to be 12 years before EMI... —
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Building a Library, March 2006, First Choice
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Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedFive-act version
Plácido Domingo (Carlo), Montserrat Caballé (Elisabetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Filippo II), Shirley Verrett (Eboli), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Giovanni Foiani (Il Grande Inquisitore), Simon Estes (Un Frate), Delia Wallis (Tebaldo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Carlo Maria Giulini
The CD transfer of the analogue recording brings astonishing vividness and realism, a tribute to the original engineering of Chirstopher Parker. Even in the big ensembles the focus is very precise,... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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