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Special offer. Steiner: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, William Stromberg
[On the original Marco Polo release] Warner Bros gave Steiner and his talented orchestrator, Murray Cutter, complete licence in the score to John Huston's 1948 classic, The Treasure of the Sierra... —
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…Charles Mackerras's ballet Pineapple Poll (1951) has become a light-music classic. David Lloyd-Jones gives the whole thing tremendous swing and rhythmic bite, with the Liverpool players on... —
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Special offer. Fry: Santa Claus Symphony, Overture to Macbeth, Niagara Symphony
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Tony Rowe
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Special offer. Verdi: Rigoletto
Maria Callas (Gilda), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Il Duca), Tito Gobbi (Rigoletto), Nicola Zaccaria (Sparafucile), Adriana Lazzarini (Maddalena), Plinio Clabassi (Monterone)
La Scala Orchestra and Chorus, Tullio Serafin
[Callas's] command in her big aria, Caro nome, is complete, yet the set is even more remarkable for the magnificent assumption of the title-role by Tito Gobbi, dark, intense and deeply moving...[di... —
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With spirited playing from the Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, this is another valuable addition to the ongoing Naxos survey of the rarer Reaches of the 18th-century symphony. —
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Paganini: Centone di Sonate, Vol. 3
Sonatas for Violin and Guitar, Op. 64
Moshe Hammer (violin), Norbert Kraft (guitar)
It is unlikely that the Centone will ever be better played and/or recorded. —
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These two discs of Mozart's first 10 symphonies offer a unique view of the composer's earliest years of apprenticeship as a symphonist.
Ward and his orchestra show a sensitive response to the... — -
Gloria Coates: String Quartets Volume 3
Sheppard Skærved (violin), Mihailo Trandafilovski (violin), Morgan Goff (viola) & Neil Heyde (cello), Roderick Chadwick (piano)
Kreutzer Quartet
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