Arthaus Musik
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Solti Centenary Concert
Live recording from Symphony Center, Chicago, 2012
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), René Pape (bass), Tereza Gevorgyan (soprano), Matilda Paulsson (mezzo-soprano), Roberto Gòmez-Ortiz (tenor) & Ross Ramgobin (baritone)
Members of the Georg Solti Accademia & World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev
In one sense, this is as much a record of an occasion as of a concert, though the music-making is top class throughout...the high point here is probably the quartet from Rigoletto...quite a... —
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The Searchers of the Grail
Parsifal | Indiana Jones | Adolf Hitler
Plácido Domingo (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor)
Kirov Orchestra and Choir, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Tony Palmer (director)
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The Dvorák Cycle - Volume V
Eva Urbanová (soprano), Katerina Kachlíková (mezzo-soprano), Štefan Margita (tenor) & Peter Mikuláš (bass)
The Prague Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Libor Pešek
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Luigo Nono, Intolleranza 1960
Sean Panikkar, Sarah Maria Sun, Anna Maria Chiuri, Antonio Yang, Musa Ngqungwana, Victor Afung Lauwers, Wiener Philharmoniker (orchestra), Ingo Metzmacher (conductor)
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Astrid Weber, Heiko Trinsinger, Zurab Zurabishvili & Kouta Räsänen
Robert Schumann Philharmonie, Golo Berg (conductor) & Ansgar Weigner (director)
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Giorgio Tozzi (Hans Sachs), Richard Cassilly (Walther von Stolzing), Arlene Saunders (Eva), Toni Blankenheim (Beckmesser), Gerhard Unger (David), Ursula Böse (Magdalene), Ernst Wiemann (Pogner); Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, Leopold Ludwig
This performance from Hamburg in 1970 has classic status, several of the singers being major Wagnerians otherwise not to be seen onstage. The whole production exudes nobility, despite fairly... —
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The Dvorák Cycle - Volume VI
Live Recording from The Alte Oper Frankfurt 1993
Lucia Popp (soprano), Eva Randová (mezzo-soprano), Josef Protschka (tenor) & Peter Mikuláš (bass)
The Prague Syphony Orchestra & Prague Symphonic Choir, Petr Altrichter
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