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JS Bach Sacred Cantatas BWV Nos 170 - 173
Max van Egmond (bass vocals), Matthias Echternach (boy soprano), Panito Iconomou (boy soprano), Paul Esswood (counter-tenor vocals), Stefan Gienger (boy soprano), Robert Holl (bass vocals), Philippe Herreweghe (director), Marius van Altena (tenor vocals), Kurt Equiluz (tenor vocals), Christian Immler...
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Puccini - Tosca (highlights)
Renata Scotto (Floria Tosca), Plácido Domingo (Mario Cavaradossi), Renato Bruson (Baron Scarpia), Renato Capecchi (Sacristan), John Cheek (Angelotti), Itzhak Perlman (Gaoler)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, James Levine
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
Anneliese Rothenberger (Konstanze), Lucia Popp (Blonde), Nicolai Gedda (Belmonte), Gerhard Unger (Pedrillo), Gottlob Frick (Osmin), Leopold Rudolf (Pasha Selim)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Josef Krips
The sturdy tempos of Joseph Krips (1966) give time and space to relish Gedda in his cool, elegant youth —
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Strauss, R: Elektra
Eva Marton (Elektra), Marjana Lipovsek (Klytämnestra), Bernd Weikl (Oreste), Hermann Winkle (Aegisth), Kurt Moll (Orest's Tutor), Daphne Evangelatos, Shirley Close, Birgit Calm, Julie Faulkner, Caroline Maria Petrig (Maids)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wolfgang Sawallisch
The women are particularly good: Eva Marton's heavy duty soprano especially rich in lower colours in the title role; Cheryl Studer's Chrysothemis light and fluttery; and Marjana Lipovsek's Klytämnestra... —
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Maria Callas (Leonora), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Manrico), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Rolando Panerai (Luna), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Luisa Villa (Ines)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan
Leonora was one of Callas’s finest stage roles and this recording is wonderfully intense, with a dark concentrated loveliness of sound in the principal arias. Karajan conducts with that almost... —
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Barbara Hendricks - Mozart Arias & Lieder
Barbara Hendricks (soprano) & Maria-João Pires (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate
This pair of discs gave me even more pleasure than I expected. Hendricks has so slim a voice that I'm surprised that she is as fine a Countess in Figaro as she is Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.... —
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Barbara Hendricks – Wolf Lieder & Nordic Songs
Barbara Hendricks (soprano) & Roland Pontinen (piano)
Hendricks's very straightforward approach to Wolf I find very refreshing. On CD2 she sings an enterprising and unusual selection - it's a pity there are no texts. —
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The mainly sickly fare on CD1 can only be rescued by simplicity and sincerity, and fortunately it is. The Mozart items on disc 2 suit Hendricks's voice perfectly, and are admirably accompanied... —
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Grofé - Suites
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra & Capitol Symphony Orchestra, Ferde Grofé & Felix Slatkin
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