Orfeo
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Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 & Symphony No. 104
Wolfgang Boettcher (cello)
Camerata Academica Salzburg, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Leonie Rysanek
Leonie Rysanek (soprano), George London, Lotte Rysanek, Christa Ludwig (Octavian) & Hilda de Groote (Sophie)
Josef Krips & Karl Böhm
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Salome
Max Lorenz, Irmgarth Barth, Inge Borkh, Hans Hotter, Lorenz Fehenberger, Katja Sabo
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Joseph Keilberth
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Special offer. Naumann, J G: Aci e Galatea
Brigitte Geller (Galatea), Martin Homrich (Aci), Klaus Häger (Polifemo), Christiane Libor (Dorinda), Ulf Bästlein (Orgonte), Marcus Ullmann (Lisia), Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Nettuno)
Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra, Frieder Bernius
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Daniel Müller-Schott plays Cello Concertos
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)
NDR Sinfonieorchester, Christoph Eschenbach
…really fine performance of Volkmann's Cello Concerto, a virtuoso showpiece in the grand manner, condensed into a fluid single movement form. Daniel Müller-Schott is a characterful advocate... —
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Julia Varady (Lisa), Elena Obraztsova (Countess), Vladimir Atlantov (Hermann), Alexander Voroshilo (Tomsky), Bodo Brinkmann (Yeletsky), Ludmila Shemchuk (Pauline), Yoshihisa Yamaji (Chekalinsky), Karl Helm (Surin), Ulrich Reß (Chaplitsky), Alfred Kuhn (Narumov), Friedrich Lenz (Master of Ceremonies),...
[Varady is] in radiant voice here, convincingly youthful and appealing at her first encounter with Herman, throwing caution to the wind as she goes to her death in the Neva. Vladimir Atlantov's... —
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad'
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons and the CBSO propel the opening paragraph of the Symphony with tremendous energy and heroic determination, adopting a tempo that is perhaps a notch faster than Shostakovich's more measured... —
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Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D major, K385 'Haffner', etc.
Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin), Enrico Mainardi (cello)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm
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Special offer. Egk: Die Verlobung in San Domingo
Evelyn Lear, Margarete Bence, Hans Günther Nöcker, Hamid Nasseri, Fritz Wunderlich, Mino Yahia, Richard Holm, Karl Christian Kohn
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Werner Egk
