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Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts Mozart
Live Recording 1958
Friedrich Gulda (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
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Wilhelm Backhaus plays Mozart & Brahms
Live Recording 1960
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm
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Stravinsky - The Firebird & Symphony of Psalms
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
There is plenty of colour and razor-sharp playing in this new version, the recording vividly capturing the orchestra in the splendid acoustics of Symphony Hall...The control in the woodwind... —
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Beethoven & Berg - Violin Concertos
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
WDR Sinfonie-Orchester, Andris Nelsons
…an unexpectedly effective coupling of two concertos that inhabit completely different worlds… Steinbacher certainly has the measure of both, delivering technically impeccable and beautifully... —
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Verdi: La Traviata
Ileana Cotrubas (Violetta Valéry), Nicolai Gedda (Alfredo), Cornell MacNeil (Germont pere), Edita Gruberova (Flora Bervoix), Emmy Loose (Annina), Kurt Equiluz (Gastone), Ernst Gutstein (Barone Douphol), Harald Pröglhöf (Marchese d'Obigny), Herbert Lackner (Dottore Grenvil)
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there is Ileana Cotrubas , her local debut in a role that made her famous. The voice is ideal for Violetta, true not not creamy, pure without being white or colourless. Her emotional understanding... —
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this is a deeply felt, beautifully played interpretation that ranks among the most moving on disc. Complete performances were still rare outside Czechoslovakia, and you're very aware of the... —
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Anton Dermota: Vienna State Opera Recordings 1944-81
Anton Dermota (tenor), Josef Witt, Sena Jurinac (Elvira), Lisa Della Casa (Anna), Irmgard Seefried (Zerlina), Erich Kunz (Leporello), Walter Berry (Masetto), Erich Kunz (Guglielmo), Paul Schöffler (Don Alfonso), Irmgard Seefried (Fiordiligi), Paul Schöffler (Hans Sachs), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Marzelline),...
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[The Brahms] is impressive, offering a relatively straightforward and unmannered interpretation. Steinbacher possess as beautifully warm, burnished tone and performs almost flawlessly throughout.... —
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