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Verdi: La forza del destino
Ludwig Welter (Marchese di Calatrava), Antonietta Stella (Leonora), Ettore Bastianini (Don Carlo), Giuseppe di Stefano (Alvaro), Giulietta Simionato (Preziosilla), Walter Kreppel (Padre Guardiano), Karl Dönch (Fra Melitone), Annemarie Ludwig (Curra)
Choir & Orchestra of the Vienna State...
Mitropoulos, who had only weeks to live, directs the work with that combination of sensitivity and drive that marked all his performances.
With the Vienna State Opera Orchestra in glowing form,... — -
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Mozart: Pavol Breslik
Pavol Breslik (tenor) & José van Dam (baritone)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Patrick Lange
This is a most desirable collection that impressively reveals Pavol Breslik as an insightful Mozartian of note. —
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this is the most dangerous, risk-taking performance of them all. Nelsons propels forward but never overdrives the exuberant rushes and crises of the mountaineers...[Salome's dance] has personality... —
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Most successful is the Rhenish Symphony No. 3, with a surging account of the opening Allegro, and an appropriately sombre view of the famous 'Cologne Cathedral' penultimate movement. —
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Nicolai, C O: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Annelies Kupper, Karl Schmitt-Walter (Frau & Herr Fluth), Max Proebstl (Falstaff), Lilian Benningsen, Kieth Engen (Frau & Herr Reich), Liselotte Fölser (Anna Reich), Richard Holm (Fenton), Paul Kuën (Junker Spärlich) & Rudolf Wünzer (Dr. Cajus)
Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera...
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Lieder by Schubert, Strauss & Schoenberg
Bayerischen Staatsoper, Cuvilliés-Theater 23/7/1984
Lucia Popp (soprano) & Irwin Gage (piano)
The music of Richard Strauss suited Popp as if she were wearing a tailor-made gown. In that composer's three songs of Ophelia, the soprano places that hapless heroine vividly before us. Gage's... —
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Mirella Freni: Opera Arias 1963 - 1995
Digitally remastered from Austrian Radio 1963–1995
Mirella Freni (soprano), Gianni Raimondi (Rodolfo), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Alberto Rinaldi (Marcello), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Orazio Mori (Schaunard), Margarita Guglielmi (Musetta), Wolfgang Brendel (Marcello), Peter Dvorsky (Des Grieux), Luis Lima (Don Carlo), Plácido Domingo (Otello),...
the spontaneity of the theatre brings a special vividness to all of these interpretations...Freni portrays every character very touchingly indeed, especially Elisabetta...[She] blazes through... —
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Dvorak: Hussite Overture & Brahms: Violin Concerto
Henryk Szeryng (violin)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik
