Testament
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Brahms: The Four Symphonies, Haydn Variations & Tragic Overture
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe
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3 CDs
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Ida Haendel plays Sibelius - Vinyl Edition
RecommendedIda Haendel (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund
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Building A Library, June 2021, Recommended Recording - Violin Concerto
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Vinyl Record
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Wagner - Die Walküre
Recorded Festspielhaus Bayreuth 1955
Martha Mödl (Brünnhilde), Hans Hotter (Wotan), Astrid Varnay (Sieglinde), Ramón Vinay (Siegmund), Georgine von Milinkovic (Fricka/Grimgerde), Josef Greindl (Hunding), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Wolfgang Windgassen
Chor & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Joseph Keilberth
Almost no Walküre… is so well cast and conducted. And the early recording conveys the atmosphere of the Festspielhaus with an honesty and power that are overwhelming. —
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4 CDs
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Das Rheingold
Hans Hotter (Wotan), Erich Witte (Loge), Otakar Kraus (Alberich), Georgine von Milinkovic (Fricka), Kurt Böhme (Fasolt), Frederick Dalberg (Fafner), Elisabeth Lindermeier (Freia), Robert Allman (Donner), Edgar Evans (Froh), Peter Klein (Mime), Maria von Ilosvay...
In short, Kempe's humane, often poetic Ring nourishes the spirit. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Historic Archive
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13 CDs
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Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American', etc.
RecommendedHollywood String Quartet
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Building a Library, January 2003, Historic Choice
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CD
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Michelangeli plays Schumann, Chopin, Debussy & Mompou
RecommendedArturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
Readers who are familiar with Michelangeli's 1971 DG recording of Debussy's Images will be astonished at this highly mobile 1957 concert performance of 'Cloches à travers les feuilles', which... —
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Building a Library, September 2001, First Choice
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2 CDs
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Theo Adam, Anja Silja, Martti Talvela, James King, Kenneth Macdonald & Annelies Burmeister
BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
Thanks to Testament, we now have the Royal Festival Hall performance, as broadcast by the BBC, to put alongside the Abbey Road recording (above – made by EMI at the same period) which might... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Disc of the Month
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2 CDs
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Verdi: La Traviata
Rosanna Carteri (Violetta), Cesare Valletti (Alfredo), Leonard Warren (Giorgio Germont), Lidia Marimpietri (Flora), Rina Alessandri (Annina)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Pierre Monteux
perhaps the principal reason for valuing this vintage set lies in the conducting of the octogenarian, Pierre Monteux. He brings together lyrical warmth and vigour with a rhythmic lift that is... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2005, Re-issue of the Month
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2 CDs
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The London Baroque Ensemble play Mozart & Dvorak Wind Serenades
RecommendedLondon Baroque Ensemble, Karl Haas
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Building a Library, January 2002, Historic Choice
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Kathleen Ferrier - Mahler: Symphony No. 3 and Kindertotenlieder
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Otto Klemperer
Boult's forthright approach to the music generates an epic grandeur that impresses in its own right. Then enter Kathleen Ferrier. Her singing of the fourth movement's 'Night Song' is wondrously... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Historic Archive
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2 CDs
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