Orfeo
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Müller-Schott has the technique to project the disc’s multitude of moods and to move seamlessly from virtuosity to sensuousness and back again...The Saint-Saëns Concerto is a joy from start... —
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Record Review, 25th September 2021, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Liszt: Années de pélerinage; Première année - Suisse & Légende 2
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano)
Piemontesi’s pianism can hold its own alongside anyone’s in terms of absolute technical facility. He also has a special affinity with the lyrical directness in Liszt’s idiom…You can’t really... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th June 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Special offer. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Piotr Beczala (Gustaf III), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Renato Ankarstrom), Krassimira Stoyanova (Amelia), Nadia Krasteva (Ulrica), Hila Fahima (Oscar), Wiener Staatsoper, Jesús López Cobos
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedMartti Talvela (King Henry), Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Claire Watson (Elsa), Walter Berry (Telramund), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud), Eberhard Waechter (Herald), Kurt Equiluz, Fritz Sperlbauer, Herbert Lackner & Ljubomir Pantscheff
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
Claire Watson excels her studio performances, singing Elsa with floods of pure tone that rarely falters...[Ludwig's] 'Entweihte Götter!' literally stops the show...Waechter makes a keen Herald,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Re-issue of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Special offer. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Grace Hoffmann (alto), Josef Traxel (tenor), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Erik Sædén (baritone), Fritz Uhl (tenor), Josef Greindl (bass), Hermann Winkler (tenor), Egmont Koch (baritone)
Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Wolfgang Sawallisch
Nilsson is heard at a pre-Wieland staging of her Isolde – more flashily indulgent (the tope notes are presented as big events) but already loving and passionate in a unique way (try ‘Tod uns... —
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Every detail of Tchaikovsky's intricate and inventive score is captured in this live recording made in Symphony Hall's superb acoustic, with the CBSO players on top of their game. This is, more... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Disc of the month
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Brahms: Haydn-Variations, Symphony No. 3
Géza Anda (piano)
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch
Wonderfully characteristic late Hans Knappertsbusch performances: broad, flexible, the fruits of a lifetime’s devotion to the Viennese classics. The Beethoven concerto with Géza Anda is especially... —
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Irmgard Seefried
Vienna 1943-1952
Irmgard Seefried (soprano) with Leopold Ludwig, Viktor Graef & Erik Werba (piano)
A lovely collection: if you had to choose a single disc to represent Seefried in song you could not do better than this...Her personal warmth permeates the voice, and in these recordings one... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, June 2012, Also Recommended
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