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Schumann - Complete Symphonies
RecommendedGidon Kremer (violin) & Martha Argerich (piano), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
The musical adventurer par excellence, ...the scholarly conductor with temperament, the thinking musician who makes music with rough edges. —
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2010
Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Sergei Edelmann (piano), Lily Maisky (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Daniel Rivera (piano), Alissa Margulis (violin), Lucia Hall (violin), Mark Dobrinskji (cello), Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg (viola),...
The sustained quality of music-making on display here ensures that the collective result is something much more than a high-powered musical love-in...her approach [to the Chopin] is as fresh... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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Puccini: Tosca
1953 recording
Maria Callas (Tosca), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Franco Calabrese (Cesare), Angelo Mercuriali (Spoletta), Melchiorre Luise (Il sagrestano), Dario Caselli (Sciarrone), Alvaro Cordova (Un pastore), Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Victor de Sabata
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Barenboim's most deeply felt playing is comfortably on a plane with his strongest rivals, and neither Schiff nor Hewitt on the one hand, nor Rosalyn Tureck… can match his brooding, preoccupied... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2005, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Tannhäuser (Dresden version)
RecommendedKlaus König (Tannhäuser), Lucia Popp (Elisabeth), Waltraud Meier (Venus), Bernd Weikl (Wolfram), Kurt Moll (Landgraf)
Bernard Haitink
Haitink charts a leisurely course through Wagner's Tannhauser...Best of the principals is Lucia Popp's fresh Elisabeth. Waltraud Meier's Venus is potent yet sounds a touch stretched...Kurt Moll's... —
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Building a Library, May 2013, First Choice on CD (Dresden version)
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Kathleen Ferrier: The Complete EMI Recordings
RecommendedKathleen Ferrier (contralto), Gerald Moore (piano), Isobel Baillie (soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Kathleen Ferrier (Orfeo), Greet Koeman (Euridice), Nel Duval (Amore)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Chorus & Orchestra of the Netherlands Opera, Bruno Walter, Herbert...
The voice is unique, its emotional power palpable after all these years. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd April 2012
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Bellini: Norma
RecommendedMaria Callas (Norma), Mario Filippeschi (Pollione), Ebe Stignani (Adalgisa), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Oroveso), Paolo Caroli (Flavio), Rina Cavallari (Clotilde)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
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Building a Library, November 2015, First Choice (mono)
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
RecommendedElisabeth Schwarzkopf (Marschallin), Christa Ludwig (Octavian), Teresa Stich-Randall (Sophie), Otto Edelmann (Ochs), Eberhard Wächter (Faninal), Ljuba Welitsch (Marianne), Paul Kuen (Valzacchi/Tierhändler), Kerstin Meyer (Annina), Nicolai Gedda (Italian Singer)
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra,...
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Remastered CD
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Lutoslawski - Symphonies & Concerto for Orchestra
RecommendedPolish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Witold Lutoslawski
this programme offers a well-planned demonstration of the composer's breadth of achievement, with performances so obviously authoritative and of a high standard, and the recording exceptionally... —
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Building a Library, May 2010, First Choice
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Elisabeth Grümmer (Elsa), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Telramund), Gottlob Frick (Heinrich), Otto Wiener (Herald)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe
Kempe gives this music a mystical edge his rivals lack, and he does so with a painter's sense of colour. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Winner
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