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The CD transfers are of Decca's best quality, full-bodied and vivid...his readings give us fresh insights into these often inspired works...a magnificent memorial to a conductor who died sadly... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, October 2020, Also Recommended
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Grammy Awards, 22nd Awards (1979), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 22nd Awards (1979), Classical Album of the Year
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Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11
RecommendedWalter Berry (Bluebeard), Christa Ludwig (Judith)
London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész
Kertész shapes the music admirably, and Walter Berry makes an appropriately compassionate Bluebeard (as opposed to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on DG, who is altogether too menacing); but neither... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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What is so striking about Pears's performance is its intensity. One continually has the sense of a live occasion...As for Britten, he recreates the music, sometimes with a fair freedom from... —
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With some pretty fast tempos throughout, Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester certainly don't hang about, but there's never any question of the music sounding rushed, and the last movements... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, January 2020, Recommended Recording
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Vivaldi: La stravaganza - 12 concerti, Op. 4
RecommendedAcademy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
RecommendedKyung Wha Chung (violin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit
It's enough to make you weep – Saint-Saëns wrote his first tune at the age of three, analysed Mozart's Don Giovanni from the full score when he was five, and at 10 claimed he could play all... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Janacek: Sinfonietta
RecommendedBell (flute/piccolo), Craxton (oboe), Pay (clarinet), Harris (bass clarinet), Gatt (bassoon), Eastop (horn), Paul Crossley (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Sir Charles Mackerras, François Huybrechts, Neville Marriner,...
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Building a Library, April 2005, Modern Choice
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Building a Library, July 2017, Also Recommended
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