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Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky
RecommendedFelix Kok & Jeremy Ballard (violins), Peter Cole (viola), Ulrich Heiner (violoncello) & John Tattersdill (double bass), Peter Donohoe (piano), Elaine Donohoe (piano) & Robert Johnston (harp), Jennifer Smith (soprano), John Fryatt (tenor) & Malcolm King (bass), Michael Collins (clarinet)
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Building a Library, November 2014, Top Recommendation
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
RecommendedLudwig Suthaus (Tristan), Kirsten Flagstad (Isolde), Blanche Thebom (Brangaene), Josef Greindl (Konig Marke), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Kurwenal), Edgar Evans (Melot), Rudolf Schock (Hirt)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
the two leads have never been equalled. The Phiharmonia Orchestra is at its absolute peak, too; and, working in long takes, the result is that the unique intensity and continuity of this score... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Simon Rattle conducts Bartók
RecommendedPeter Donohoe (piano), Kyung-Wha Chung (violin), Sylvio Gualdo & Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion) & Katia & Marielle Labèque (pianos), Anne Sofie von Otter & Willard White
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Concerto
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Nicolai Ghiaurov (Don Giovanni), Franz Crass (Commendatore), Claire Watson (Donna Anna), Nicolai Gedda (Don Ottavio), Christa Ludwig (Donna Elvira), Walter Berry (Leporello), Mirella Freni (Zerlina) & Paolo Montarsolo (Masetto)
New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Otto Klemperer
The cast is strong overall and to match Klemperer’s weighty reading the producers, Peter Andry and Suvi Raj Grubb, picked dark voices for the male roles...[Klemperer] has his own concept, marvellous... —
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Verdi: Il trovatore
Ruggero Raimondi (bass), Leontyne Price (soprano), Maria Venuti (mezzo-soprano), Piero Cappuccilli (baritone), Franco Bonisolli (tenor), Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano), Martin Egel (bass), Horst Nitsche (tenor), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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Debussy: The Complete Works
Artists include Martha Argerich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Samson François, Renaud Capuçon, Natalie Dessay, André Cluytens, François-Xavier Roth, Jean Martinon, Michel Plasson, Kent Nagano and Carlo Maria Giulini
Exhaustive, the sum of the crème de la crème of the discography...THE Debussy box set to have…No richer panorama exists for the melodies (the complete EMI recordings alongside never-before-released... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Archive
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These performances are taken from an outstanding modern Beethoven quartet cycle, given by the Alban Berg Quartet in Vienna in 1989. To their trademark polish, finesse and intellectual penetration,... —
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