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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
Plácido Domingo (Idomeneo), Cecilia Bartoli (Idamante), Heidi Grant Murphy (Ilia), Carol Vaness (Elettra), Thomas Hampson (Arbace), Frank Lopardo (Gran Sacerdote), Bryn Terfel (La Voce)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
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In the 1950s these recordings would have probably given a very up-to-date impression; the playing is extremely clean – there's never a hint of sentimental violin slides or over-use of the sustaining... —
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Hermann Prey (Figaro), Edith Mathis (Susanna), Gundula Janowitz (Contessa Almaviva), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Conte Almaviva), Tatiana Troyanos (Cherubino), Patricia Johnson (Marcellina), Peter Lagger (Bartolo), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Basilio)
Deutschen Oper Berlin, Karl Böhm
As with many conductors of his generation, Karl Böhm had a now-unfashionable liking for a rallentando at the end of an aria, but that pales into insignificance alongside the many virtues of... —
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Sherrill Milnes (Don Giovanni), Walter Berry (Leporello), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Donna Anna), Peter Schreier (Don Ottavio), Teresa Zylis-Gara (Donna Elvira), Edith Mathis (Zerlina), Dale Dasing (Masetto), John Macurdy (Commendatore)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm
a mature and deeply satisfying reading, a veritable triumph for this distinguished veteran Mozartian. [Böhm] paces the work with an easy fluency, shaping it symphonically and never losing sight... —
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Mozart: Lucio Silla, K135
Peter Schreier (Lucio Silla), Arleen Augér (Giunia), Edith Mathis (Cinna), Julia Varady (Cecilio), Helen Donath (Celia)
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Salzburger Rundfunk- und Mozarteumchor, Leopold Hager
Leopold Hager ... paces the arias admirably and draws clean, euphonious playing from the Mozarteum Orchestra. … The cast could scarcely be bettered, as the presence of singers like Helen Donath... —
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Orff: Oedipus der Tyrann
Gerhard Stolze (Oedipus), Astrid Varnay (Jokasta), Kieth Engen (Kreon), James Harper (Tiresias), Karl Christian Kohn (Ein Priester), Hubert Buchta (Ein Bote), Carlos Alexander (Ein anderer Bote), Heinz Cramer (Ein Hirte)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik
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Great Concertos: The Best of DG Originals
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Emil Gilels (piano), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Eugen Jochum
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