Deutsche Grammophon
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Rita Streich sings Immortal Melodies
Rita Streich (soprano)
RIAS Kammerchor & Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kurt Gaebel
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Wolfgang Windgassen sings Wagner
Here, in extracts from eight Wagner operas he displays all the lyrical and dramatic qualities of his beautifully natural voice to great advantage. Annelies Küpper also appears, as Elizabeth, in an extended extract from Tannhäuser.
Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Münchener Philharmoniker & Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Richard Kraus, Ferdinand Leitner & Leopold Ludwig
The most significant Wagner tenor since World War II, Windgassen had a fine voice which he used with supreme artistry as here on his invaluable disc. —
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Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47, etc.
Shlomo Mintz
Berliner Philharmoniker, James Levine
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 21
Wiener Philharmoniker, directed from the piano by Maurizio Pollini
Deep meditative contemplation . . . is not his interpretative starting point but clarity, highest pianistic subtlety —
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Carlo Bergonzi (Manrico), Antonietta Stella (Leonora), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Ettore Bastianini (Conte di Luna), Ivo Vinco (Ferrando), Armanda Bonato (Ines), Franco Ricciardi (Ruiz)
Teatro alla Scala, Tullio Serafin
blessed with Serafin’s lithe, clear, unforced conducting…and a cast all of whose members are Italian —
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Humperdinck: Hänsel & Gretel
Gisela Litz (Hänsel), Rita Streich (Gretel), Marianne Schech (Gertrud), Horst Günter (Peter), Res Fischer (Die Knusperhexe), Elisabeth Lindermeier (Sandmännchen), Bruno Brückmann (Taumännchen)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Münchner Philharmoniker, Fritz Lehmann
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Puccini: Edgar
Plácido Domingo (Edgar), Adriana Damato (Fidelia), Marianne Cornetti (Tigrana), Juan Pons (Frank), Rafael Siwek (Gualtiero)
Coro e Orchestra dell'accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Veronesi
Edgar, Puccini's second opera, composed in 1888 and first given the following year at La Scala, has never really caught on. The title-role is the only Puccini tenor lead role that Plácido Domingo... —
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Gabriela Benackova, Marjana Lipovsek, Gösta Winbergh & Hermann Prey
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsoper & Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (highlights)
Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Figaro), Anna Netrebko (Susanna), Bo Skovhus (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Christine Schäfer (Cherubino), Marie McLaughlin (Marcellina), Franz-Josef Selig (Bartolo), Patrick Henckens (Basilio), Oliver Ringelhahn (Curzio), Florian Boesch (Antonio), Eva Liebau (Barbarina)
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By and large the opera could hardly be more strongly cast. Anna Netrebko is a dreamy, vulnerable and beautifully sung Susanna, and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo's smouldering Figaro is a really macho... —
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