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Top-flight Berlioz performances with Sir Colin Davis’s incisive conducting, a live-wire LSO, and Tabea Zimmermann the lustrous-toned viola soloist in Harold in Italy. —
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The year 1905'
London Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich
Rostropovich’s ultra-spacious, sometimes ultra-slow way with this symphony takes ten minutes longer than the recorded average, but impresses nonetheless. Powerful LSO playing. —
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Britten: Peter Grimes
Peter Pears (Peter Grimes), Claire Watson (Ellen Orford), James Pease (Balstrode), Jean Watson (Auntie), Raymond Nilsson (Bob Boles), Owen Brannigan (Swallow), Geraint Evans (Ned Keene), Lauris Elms (Mrs Sedley), David Kelly (Hobson), Marion Studholme (First Niece), Iris Kells (Second Niece), John...
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Joan Sutherland “La Stupenda”
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Nello Santi
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Maria Callas Verdi Arias & Mad Scenes
Recorded 1958
Maria Callas (soprano)
with the Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno
This CD encapsulates the essence of Callas's genius. Recorded in 1958, the last year her voice was wholly reliable, every track is something to wonder at. —
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Sibelius: Incidental Music for Theatre
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Bátiz, Loris Tjeknavorian
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos/ 20 & 27 & Beethoven: Rondo, WoO 6
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Stanislaw Wislocki, Rudolf Barshai
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Lisa Della Casa sings Richard Strauss
Lisa Della Casa (soprano), with Rudolf Schock, Lisa Otto, Nada Puttar & Leonore Kirchstein, with George London
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Alberto Erede, Georg Solti
Whichever are your preferred Four Last Songs, this performance will equal them. The excerpts from Arabella and Ariadne are just as impressive. —
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