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Allegri's Miserere brings an outstandingly involving interpretation to light, the stratospheric top Cs for solo treble not unduly spotlighted, and marvellously natural unison phrasing in the... —
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The Purcell Experience
Artists include John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, William Christie, Gustav Leonhardt, Bruggen-Consort, Ton Koopman, Il Giardino Armonico, Capriccio Stravagante, Chanticleer, The Choir of Kings College Cambridge, Michael Chance, James Bowman, Susan Graham, Dawn Upshaw, Sumi Jo & Olivier...
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Martin - Mass for Double Choir, Polyptique & Ballades
Osian Ellis (Harp), Simon Preston (Harpsichord) & Philip Ledger (Piano), Yehudi Menuhin (Violin), Auréle Nicolet (Flute) & Werner Bärtschi (Piano), Yehudi Menuhin (Viola), José van Dam (baritone), Julian Bream (guitar)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Menuhin Festival Orchestra...
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Maria Callas (Butterfly), Nicolai Gedda (Pinkerton), Mario Borriello (Sharpless), Lucia Danieli (Suzuki)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Herbert von Karajan
Callas's view, aided by superbly imaginative and spacious conducting from Karajan, gives extra dimension to the Puccinian little woman, and with some keenly intelligent singing too from Gedda... —
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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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Great American Showpieces
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Eduardo Mata, Leonard Slatkin
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The Jerome Kern Treasury
George Dvorsky, Thomas Hampson, Jeanne Lehman, Rebecca Luker, Lydia Milá & Hugh Panaro
London Sinfonietta Chorus & London Sinfonietta, John McGlinn
This is a bumper bag of the master Jerome Kern's greatest songs from the 1910s to the '40s and in their original orchestrations. A younger Thomas Hampson is a winner with 'The Song is You'. —
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