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Special offer. Bruno Walter - Richard Itter Collection
Mahler · Wagner · Haydn · Brahms
Bruno Walter
this is a stirring performance verging on greatness. —
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Special offer. Yuri Bashmet conducts Brahms & Tchaikovsky
Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Bashmet
Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique" is a powerfully emotional piece under any baton, but in this shattering interpretation Bashmet digs down to its darkest depths to reveal its true Slavic soul. And... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Requiem
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Nina Isakova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Ivanovsky (tenor) & Ivan Petrov (bass)
State Academy Chorus & Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de l’ORTF, Igor Markevitch
one of the great interpretations, intensely felt and marvellously acute in its understanding of the balance between the score's devotional and dramatic elements. The playing and choral singing... —
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 - Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein, Deryck Cooke
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the sense of joyous homecoming in the closing pages is truly overwhelming in its cumulative impact and rightly accorded a thunderous ovation. There's much that is cherishable, too, in the performance... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Special offer. Cherubini: Medea
Maria Callas (Medea), Jon Vickers (Giasone), Fiorenza Cossotto (Neris), Nicola Zaccaria (Creonte), Joan Carlyle (Glauce), Mary Wells (First Maidservant), Elizabeth Rust (Second Maidservant) & David Allen (Captain of the Guard)
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno
[This version] would have small claims to be authentic...What is authentic is the passion and intensity that Callas brings to would become one of her greatest roles...The supporting cast is... —
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Special offer. Leopold Stokowski: Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive, Vol. 2
Berit Lindholm, Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Alexander Young, Donald McIntyre (bass-baritone), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Band of the Grenadier Guards, John Alldis Choir, Welsh National Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra,...
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Special offer. Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts Debussy & Mahler
Lucretia West (contralto)
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Dimitri Mitropoulos
These performances, taken from 1960 radio broadcasts, were the last Mitropoulos gave. During the symphony’s huge first movement, he suffered a heart attack; and, though he went on conducting,... —
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Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts Beethoven
Irmgard Seefried, Rosette Anday, Anton Dermota & Paul Schöffler
Wiener Singakademie & Wiener Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Special offer. Claudio Arrau plays Chopin & Beethoven
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Otto Klemperer, Christoph von Dohnanyi
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