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He uses the capabilities of the modern Steinway judiciously, maintaining some of the qualities of the spinet and harpsichord of Purcell’s time whilst using but not over-using the vast tonal... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Brahms - Symphonies & Overtures
RecommendedMarjana Lipovsek (contralto)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Chorus, Ernst Senff Chor, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, October 2008, First Choice
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Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)
RecommendedKatia Ricciarelli (Elisabeth), Lucia Valentini Terrani (Eboli), Plácido Domingo (Carlos), Leo Nucci (Rodrigue), Ruggero Raimondi (Philippe II), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Le Grand Inquisiteur), Nikita Storojew (Un Moine), Ann Murray (Thibault), Tibère Raffalli (Le Compte de Lerme), Antonio Savastano (Un Hérault...
Domingo easily outshines his earlier recording with Giulini...while Katia Ricciarelli as the Queen gives a tenderly moving performance, if not quite commanding enough in the Act V aria. Ruggero... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Verbier Festival: 25 Years of Excellence
Malena Ernman (mezzo), Yuja Wang (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Truls Mørk (cello), Evgeny Kissin (piano), Vadim Repin (violin I), Laurent Korcia (violin II), Yuri Bashmet (viola), Alexander Kniazev (cello), Bryn Terfel...
Every performance is a gem: the line-up could scarcely be starrier, but what makes it special is the fact that everything is more than the sum of its considerable parts. Highlights include a... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Here we have superior musicians on a roll in some great music, and the fact that we’re privileged to share in their joy is cause for celebration. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Die Walküre
RecommendedHildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde), Jessye Norman (Sieglinde), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Gary Lakes (Siegmund), James Morris (Wotan), Kurt Moll (Hunding)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
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Grammy Awards, 32nd Awards (1989), Best Opera Recording
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Catarina Ligendza, Christa Ludwig, Plácido Domingo, Horst R Laubenthal, Roland Hermann
Chorus & Orchestra of German Opera Berlin, Eugen Jochum
Jochum is unerring in building long Wagnerian climaxes and resolving them. The cast is the most consistent yet assembled on record. The key to the set is the searching and highly individual... —
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Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedHelga Dernesch (Brünnhilde), Catherine Gayer (Waldvogel), Oralia Dominguez (Erda), Jess Thomas (Siegfried), Gerhard Stolze (Mime), Thomas Stewart (Der Wanderer), Zoltan Kelemen (Alberich), Karl Ridderbusch (Fafner)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Karajan provides the seamless playing which characterizes his cycle. —
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Grammy Awards, 12th Awards (1969), Best Opera Recording
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The blend of clarity, intimacy and power the engineers have been able to achieve here fits the lustre and glow of these Staatskapelle performances like a glove…These are not ‘here today, gone... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, Editor's Choice
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