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Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Nänie, Gesang der Parzen & Begräbnisgesang
Alfreda Hogson (alto)
Bavarian State Choir & Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
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Brahms: Die schöne Magelone, Op. 33
Hermann Prey (baritone), Annette Prey (recitation) & Helmut Deutsch (piano)
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Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta & Concerto for Orchestra
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik
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Special offer. Auber: Le cheval de bronze
Leo Heppe, Wilma Jung, Franz Fuchs, Edith Kermer, Tino di Costa, Kurt Equiluz, Herta Schmidt, Grosses Wiener Rundfunkorchester, Niederösterreichischer Tonkünstlerchor, Kurt Richter
In broad terms the performance is rough and ready, and occasionally sloppy— Auber’s carefully placed vocal accents are often ignored—but there’s nevertheless a certain spirit to it...Arguably... —
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Brahms: Symphony No. 4 & Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Hans Knappertsbusch
Hans Knappertsbusch gives an extraordinarily intimate account of the Siegfried Idyll… The same is even more true of Brahm's Fourth Symphony, here given a passionately idiosyncratic account... —
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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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Nicolai Ghiaurov
Josef Krips, Horst Stein, Giuseppe Sinopoli & Miguel Gomez Martinez
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Seiji Ozawa
We hear him first, fresh-voiced and magnificent in even-toned sonority as Fiesco in his prologue to Simon Boccanegra. Then comes the complete triumph in one of his great roles, the King in... —
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Edita Gruberova - The Art of the Coloratura
Edita Gruberova (soprano)
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Eichorn
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Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Plácido Domingo (tenor), Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), Matteo Manuguerra, Heinz Zednik (tenor), Wolfgang Schöne, Wiener Staatsoper (opera company), Ádám Fischer
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Stoyanova's solid technique and distinctive ability to characterise more through vocal intensity than colour suits a repertoire which constitutes a guide to Slavic melancholy...the version of... —
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Opera, January 2012, Recording of the Month
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