Decca
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
RecommendedChicago Symphony Chorus (chorus), Martti Talvela (bass), Stuart Burrows (tenor), Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)
Sir Georg Solti
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Grammy Awards, 30th Awards (1987), Best Orchestral Performance
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A colourful panorama stylishly and affectionately executed by all concerned. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Concerto (recorder)
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Mahler: Das klagende Lied
Susan Dunn (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano), Markus Baur (countertenor), Werner Hollweg (tenor), Andreas Schmidt (bass)
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Städtischer Musikverein Düsseldorf, Riccardo Chailly
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Verdi: Falstaff
RecommendedGeraint Evans (Sir John Falstaff), Giulietta Simionato (Mistress Quickly), Ilva Ligabue (Alice Ford), Robert Merrill (Ford), Mirella Freni (Nannetta), Alfredo Kraus (Fenton), Rosalind Elias (Meg Page), John Lanigan (Dr Cajus), Piero de Palma (Bardolfo), Giovanni Foiani (Pistola)
RCA Italiana...
Geraint Evans has deservedly earned great praise for his splendid characterisation and singing of Falstaff ... in all this is a very good-humoured and well-rounded portrait of the part ... this... —
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2002, Editor's Choice
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Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra & Simple Symphony
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
the warmth and vitality of the playing has striking presence in this 1969 recording. The strings at the opening sweep one into the fun spirit of [the Simple Symphony] immediately...The performance... —
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Building a Library, October 1999, First Choice
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Here's a Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues cycle to be reckoned with. It starts none too promisingly, with (by the highest standards) a rhythmically stiff, tonally lumpy C-major prelude and some... —
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Grammy Awards, 42nd Awards (1999), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Verdi: Aida
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Aida), Jon Vickers (Radamès), Rita Gorr (Amneris), Robert Merrill (Amonasro), Plinio Clabassi (Il Re di Egitto), Giorgio Tozzi (Ramfis), Franco Ricciardi (Un Messaggero), Mietta Sighiele (Una Sacerdotessa)
Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sir Georg Solti
Solti motivates his account of Verdi's score with thrilling dynamism, fully displaying the music's grandeur and depth as well as deriving considerable refinement from his Roman forces. His cast... —
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Opera Recording
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Freire's sheer love of music, and of this music, is positively incandescent...This is playing of exceptional virility, entirely untainted by machismo posturing or narcissistic display. Chopin... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, Instrumental Choice
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