Chandos
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Alberto Remedios (Siegfried), Rita Hunter (Brünnhilde), Gregory Dempsey (Mime), Norman Bailey (Wanderer), Derek Hammond-Stroud (Alberich), Clifford Grant (Fafner), Anne Collins (Erda), Maurine London (Woodbird), Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra, Reginald Goodall
A unique record of a real artistic achievement. —
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Special offer. Wagner: Twilight of the Gods
Alberto Remedios (Siegfried), Rita Hunter (Brünnhilde), Aage Haugland (Hagen), Derek Hammond-Stroud (Alberich), Norman Welsby (Gunther), Margaret Curphey (Gutrune), Katherine Pring (Waltraute); English National Opera, Reginald Goodall
Valkyrie: There's something inevitable, even eternal about Goodall's long-breathed, fulltoned, often ideally articulated reading. The ENO management's faith in him was handsomely repaid in his... —
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A magnificently realistic recorded performance which features an orchestra whose playing seems to go from strength to strength...this is a thoroughly engaging performance which will delight... —
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Special offer. Eccles - The Judgment of Paris & Three Mad Songs
Roderick Williams (baritone), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Claire Booth (soprano) & Lucy Crowe (soprano)
The Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Christian Curnyn elegantly captures the unique charms of Eccles's music. …as Venus, Lucy Crowe's melting lyricism, delicately underpinned by plucked and bowed instruments, is irresistible;... —
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it has a compulsively listenable range of colour and orchestral effects. These are utterly sensible and musical performances…the collection makes for entertaining listening —
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Of all the pieces compellingly performed by the ARC Ensemble, I was particularly taken by the Septet for the unusual combination of three violins, viola, two cellos and piano. This one-movement... —
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony', etc.
original 1913 version
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
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