Orfeo
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Verdi: Requiem
Julia Varady (soprano), Alexandrina Milcheva (mezzo-soprano), Alberto Cupido (tenor), Nicola Ghiuselev (bass), ORF Chor, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
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Weber, Kurpiński & Crusell: Works for Clarinet & Orchestra
Sharon Kam (clarinet)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gregor Bühl
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Special offer. Krenek: Orpheus und Eurydike
Ronald Hamilton (Orpheus), Dunja Vejzovic (Eurydice), Celina Lindsley (Psyche), Cornelia Kallisch (First Fury), Gabriele Schreckenbach (Second Fury), Jutta Geister (Third Fury), Hans Franzen (A Drunk), Wilfried Gahmlich (A Sailor) & Bo Skovhus (Fool), RSO Wien & ORF-Chor, Pinchas Steinberg
The score’s big moments are well in hand under Pinchas Steinberg, though voices and orchestra maintain an aural distance…this recording is a mixed blessing, but without it we might never know... —
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Francesca da Rimini
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons inspires great enthusiasm in his audience. However, his cool and disciplined style of music-making rather mutes the works on this disc which run the emotional gamut from despair to exhilaration...the... —
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The velvety richness of Grace Bumbry’s mezzo is captured near the start of her international career in this Brahms programme with pianist Beaumont Glass at the Salzburg Festival. —
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Special offer. Carl Orff: Prometheus
Roland Hermann (Prometheus), Colette Lorand (Io Inachis), Fritz Uhl (Hermes), Josef Grendl (Kratos), Kieth Engen (Okeanos), Heinz Cramer (Hephaistos), Frauenchor und Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik
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The conductor and three of the cast may now be deceased but what, almost 45 years on, remains the only complete account in modern times at least give this flawed opera a fighting chance. —
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Kozeluch: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 and Sonate concertante
Dieter Klöcker (clarinet)
Prague Chamber Orchestra
