Naxos
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Special offer. Puccini: Il tabarro
Tito Gobbi, Margaret Mas, Giacinto Prandelli, Miriam Pirazzini, Piero De Palma & Plinio Clabassi
Rome Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, Vincenzo Bellezza
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Stravinsky: Duo Concertant
Jennifer Frautschi (violin) & Jeremy Denk (piano), Ralph van Raat and Maarten van Veen (pianos), Sally Burgess (contralto) & Roderick Williams (bass), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Richard O’Neill (Viola)
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Robert Craft
It's the performances of the two late serial works [the Requiem Canticles and Abraham and Isaac] that make this disc worthwhile. Craft brings real urgency to these masterpieces, and a dramatic... —
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Special offer. Wallace, W V: Lurline
Keith Lewis (tenor), Paul Ferris (tenor), David Soar (bass-baritone), Donald Maxwell (baritone), Roderick Earle (bass), Sally Silver (soprano), Fiona Janes (mezzo) & Bernadette Cullen (mezzo)
Victorian Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
Wallace’s music is easy on the ear, unfailingly mellifluous, and nimbly adept at broadening into bracing drama...Sally Silver is a seductive siren, Richard Lewis a sober (and rather mature-sounding)... —
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Penderecki: Orchestral Works Vol. 4
Konstanty Kulka (violin), Chee-Yun (violin)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice), Antoni Wit
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (Prima Donna/Ariadne), Rita Streich (Zerbinetta), Irmgard Seefried (The Composer), Rudolf Schock (The Tenor/Bacchus), Alfred Neugebauer (Major Domo), Karl Dönch (The Music Teacher) (An Officer) Gerhard Unger (An Officer), Lisa Otto (Naiad), Grace Hoffman (Dryad), Anny Felbermayer...
Karajan's recording may yield top position to Rudolf Kempe's 1968 account, but surely to no other. His feeling for the music, as well as his cast - especially Schwarzkopf's Ariadne, Streich's... —
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Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Re-orchestrated by Gustav Mahler
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
If it does feel a lit tle more lithe and athletic in places, that ’s possibly down to Alsop much as to Mahler (the lively tempo and crisp articulation in the Fourth’s first movement are very... —
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Special offer. Enrico Caruso - Complete Recordings, Vol. 9
Selected arias for tenor by Verdi, Gomes and more
Enrico Caruso (tenor), Alma Gluck (soprano), Emmy Destinn (soprano), Frances Alda (soprano), Mischa Elman (violin), Gaetano Scognamiglio (piano)
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus, New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Victor Orchestra, Giulio Setti, Walter B. Rogers
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The English Song Series Volume 5 - Roger Quilter 1
Lisa Milne (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Louisa Fuller (violin), Ivan McCready (cello), Graham Johnson (piano)
The Duke Quartet
