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Schubert: Lieder & Schwanengesang
Mozarteum, Salzburg 17/8/1964
Hermann Prey (baritone) & Gerald Moore (piano)
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Special offer. Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci
Leonie Rysanek (Santuzza), Plácido Domingo (Turiddu, Canio), Astrid Varnay (Mamma Lucia), Teresa Stratas (Nedda), Wolfgang Brendel (Silvio) & Benito di Bella (Alfio, Tonio)
Bavarian State Opera, Nello Santi
Domingo is magnificent as both Turiddu and [Canio]. Rysanek is a brooding, dark-toned Santuzza, but Stratas's Nedda too much the waif and stray. —
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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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Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos
Daniel Müller-Schott (Gofriller cello 1700)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn
The Walton… is distinctive, not least because the Oslo Philharmonic under Previn is on cracking form. This subtly playful, sun-lit work is fiendishly difficult and requires just the sort of... —
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Daniel Müller-Schott plays Britten & Prokofiev
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)
WDR Köln, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
These two 'symphony' concertos are hellishly demanding and Daniel Müller-Schott is more than equal to the task...A protege of Rostropovich, he's also well qualified to plumb their expressive... —
