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Chopin - Complete Works For Piano & Orchestra
Kun-Woo Paik (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
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Alfred Brendel plays Liszt & Schumann
Alfred Brendel (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Liszt's Sonata is seen to have 'an enlarged field of tension' and here is a performance that, from a tension of expectancy in the dragged notes of the opening bars to the tensions of the bravura... —
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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture & Symphony No. 2
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
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Emma Kirkby - A Portrait
Selected songs for soprano by Handel, Purcell etc.
Catherine Mackintosh, Anthony Rooley, Richard Campbell, Lisa Beznosiuk
Academy of Ancient Music, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Winchester Quiristers, Christopher Hogwood
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Pachelbel: Canon & other Baroque works
Stephen Preston (flute), Colin Tilney, Christophe Rousset, Davitt Moroney, Christopher Hogwood (all harpsichord)
Academy of Ancient Music
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Strauss, R: Salome
Birgit Nilsson (Salome), Eberhard Wächter (Jokanaan), Gerhard Stolze (Herod), Grace Hoffman (Herodias)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
[Solti's] overwhelming account of Strauss's Salome ... Nilsson 's account of the title role remains another towering monument to her tireless singing —
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Symphony No.8... is just as thrilling today... and very well balanced... Kertész's No.9 has also stood the test of time as a highly recommendable and imaginative performance with vivid sound. —
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Renata Tebaldi (Madama Butterfly), Carlo Bergonzi (Pinkerton), Fiorenza Cossotto (Suzuki), Enzo Sordello (Sharpless), Angelo Mercuriali (Goro), Lidia Nerozzi (Kate Pinkerton), Michele Cazzato (Prince Yamadori)
Orchestra e coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Tullio Serafin
Tebaldi is at times an unconvincing geisha in her second exploration on disc though she's well supported by Bergonzi's lieutenant and Sordello's consul. —
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Robert Hale (Der Holländer), Hildegard Behrens (Senta), Josef Protschka (Erik), Kurt Rydl (Daland), Iris Vermillion (Mary)
Konzertvereiningung der Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Christoph von Dohnanyi
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