Hofmannsthal
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Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos
RecommendedSung in English: translation by Christopher Cowell
Christine Brewer (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Robert Dean Smith (Bacchus/The Tenor), Alice Coote (Composer), Gillian Keith (Zerbinetta), Stephen Fry (Major-Domo), Alan Opie (Music Master), John Graham-Hall (Dancing Master/Scaramuccio), Roderick Williams (Harlequin), Matthew Rose (Truffaldino), Wynne Evans...
Brewer's luscious Ariadne had to be captured on disc...There's another essential performance from Alice Coote...with unflinchingly full top notes that few other genuine mezzos possess...I've... —
Awards:
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Opera Choice
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Building A Library, September 2025, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Richard Tauber - Opera Arias (1919-1926)
Selected arias for tenor by Auber, Rossini and more
Richard Tauber (tenor), Benno Ziegler (baritone), Elisabeth Rethberg (soprano), Lotte Lehmann (soprano)
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the fall of Tobias Moretti’s Everyman is all the more affecting for his initial suavity...It is Caroline Peters, however, as the Paramour, who almost steals the show from Moretti thanks both... —
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the fall of Tobias Moretti’s Everyman is all the more affecting for his initial suavity…It is Caroline Peters, however, as the Paramour, who almost steals the show from Moretti thanks both to... —
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Hofmannsthal: Der Schwierige
Otto W. Fischer, Susi Nicoletti, Peter Weck, Gerlinde Locker, Erik Frey, Christiane Hörbiger, Ernst Stankovski, Alexander Kerst, Alma Seidler, Ulli Fessl, Elisabeth Gassner, Sylvia Lukan, Franz Messner, Emmerich Reimers, Hans Obonya, Paul Hoffmann, Josef Krastel, Rudolf Steinboeck
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2 CDs
$25.50
