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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Renée Fleming (Fiordiligi), Anne Sofie von Otter (Dorabella), Adelina Scarabelli (Despina), Frank Lopardo (Ferrando), Olaf Bär (Guglielmo), Michele Pertusi (Don Alfonso)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Sir Georg Solti
Frank Lopardo is a paragon of a Ferrando, possibly the finest of all on disc, partly because his supple tenor encompasses both the lyrical and heroic...[The Chamber Orchestra of Europe's] playing... —
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Massenet: Esclarmonde
Joan Sutherland (Esclarmonde), Giacomo Aragall (Roland), Huguette Tourangeau (Parséis), Clifford Grant (Emperor Phorcas), Louis Quilico (L'Evèque de Blois), Ryland Davies (Enéas), Robert Lloyd (Cléomer), Ian Caley (A Saracen Envoy), Graham Clark (A Byzantine Herald)
The National Philharmonic...
Bonynge, in his best form ever, procures a full-blooded performance from a wellchosen cast, aided by a suitably vivid recording that shows no sign at all of its age...Sutherland's words are... —
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Vladimir Vaneyev (Boris), Vladimir Galouzine (Grigory/False Dmitry), Olga Borodina (Marina), Nikolai Okhotnikov (Pimen), Fyodor Kuznetsov (Varlaam), Konstantin Pluzhnikov (Shuisky), Nikolai Gassiev (Missail), Evgeny Nikitin (Rangoni), Zlata Bulycheva (Fyodor), Olga Trifonova (Xenia), Liubov Sokolova...
Like Night on a Bare Mountain, Boris Godunov was subjected to a multitude of revisions by Rimsky-Korsakov and others. Valery Gergiev, conducting forces from the Kirov Opera, here restores Mussorgsky's... —
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Nicolai Ghiaurov (Boris), Olivera Miljakovic (Fyodor), Aleksei Maslennikov (Shuisky/Simpleton), Martti Talvela (Pimen), Ludovic Spiess (Grigory/False Dmitry), Anton Diakov (Varlaam), Nadejda Dobrianova (Xenia), Galina Vishnevskaya (Marina)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
Shostakovich's orchestration without his additions
Bulat Minjelkiev (Ivan Khovansky), Vladimir Galusin (Andrey Khovansky), Alexei Steblianko (Golitsyn), Nikolai Ohotnikov (Dosifey), Olga Borodina (Marfa), Valery Alexeev (Shaklovity), Yelena Prokina (Emma), Vassily Gerelo (Streshniev)
Kirov and Orchestra St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Bryn Terfel (Don Giovanni), Renée Fleming (Donna Anna), Ann Murray (Donna Elvira), Michele Pertusi (Leporello), Herbert Lippert (Don Ottavio), Monica Groop (Zerlina), Roberto Scaltriti (Masetto), Mario Luperi (Il Commendatore)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Voices, Sir Georg Solti
It is as finely disciplined as any other Solti performance, the orchestral playing is excellent, and the rhythms are crisp, strong and tautly held. There is a sense of spaciousness to the direction... —
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Scriabin - Complete Symphonies
Peter Jablonski (piano)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Vladimir Ashkenazy
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