Naxos
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Great Singers - Lotte Lehmann
Lieder Recordings Volume 3 (1941)
Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Bruno Walter (piano), Paul Ulanowsky (piano)
Lehmann remains one of the few female singers to have attempted the 'male' cycles Dichterliebe and Winterreise (nine songs only). Her moving interpretations are essential listening, and in... —
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Wass plays all this music straight and honestly, with a sure instinct for its idioms, without surrendering to the more self-indulgent aspects of Bax's chromaticism. Wass has plenty of power... —
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A major Baroque treasure trove. Christoph Graupner (1683-1760), as his dates indicate, was an exact contemporary of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Couperin, Rameau, Telemann--in short, of all of the... —
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Tishchenko: Symphony No. 8
Chingiz Osmanov (violin) & Nikolai Mazhara (piano), Mila Shkirtil (mezzo-soprano)
St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Serov
There are occasional ragged edges in the playing, but more importantly a strong communicative presence under Yuri Serov’s guiding spirit —
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Neglected music by Hungary’s foremost symphonist in reliable and generally satisfactory performances and recordings – worth exploring —
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