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Special offer. Massenet: Manon
Victoria de los Angeles, Henry Legay, Jean Borthayre, Michel Dens, Rene Herent & Jean Vieuille
Orchestra & Chorus of the Theatre National de l’Opera-Comique, Pierre Monteux
Despite some rough playing and crude sound, this 1955 version of Massenet's masterpiece is still the most stylish, due to De los Angeles's impeccable heroine, Henri Legay's ardent Des Grieux... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Joanna Borowska, soprano, Priti Coles, John Dickie, tenor, Andrea Martin, baritone, Peter Mikulas, bass, Rohangiz Yachmi, mezzo-soprano
Capella Istropolitana, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Johannes Wildner
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Lauritz Melchior (Siegmund), Astrid Varnay (Sieglinde), Helen Traubel (Brünnhilde), Friedrich Schorr (Wotan), Kerstin Thorborg (Fricka)
New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus, Erich Leinsdorf
an electrifying performance, starrily cast, with radio sound giving clear focus to the voices...[Melchior] is in heroic voice...Varnay is a warm Sieglinde...Traubel sings with a rock-like firmness... —
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Rossini: Zelmira
Joshua Stewart (tenor), Luca Dall'Amico (bass-baritone), Silvia Dalla Benetta (soprano), Marina Comparato (mezzo-soprano), Federico Sacchi (bass), Mert Süngü (tenor), Xiang Xu (tenor), Emmanuel Franco (baritone), Górecki Chamber Choir, Virtuosi Brunensis, Gianluigi Gelmetti
The music is a magnificent mix of everything that Rossini had polished in Naples - grand marches, hair-raising crescendos, bubbling woodwinds and dizzying cabalettas…The Wildbad cast hesitates... —
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Maria Kliegel - Anniversary Edition
Maria Kliegel (cello), Dong-Suk Kang (violin), Jenö Jandó (piano), Bernd Glemser (piano), Ilya Kaler (violin), Elsbeth Moser (bayan), Kristin Merscher (piano), Raimund Havenith (piano), Nina Tichman (piano), Francesco Piemontesi (piano), François-Joël Thiollier (piano), William Preucil (violin),...
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Toner till tröst
Henning Kraggerud (violin), Janos Balint (piano), Nóra Mercz, Maria Kliegel (cello), Raimund Havenith, Ingrid Kertesi, József Balogh, Johan Halvorsen, Ellen Bødtker, Claude Debussy, Jenö Jandó (piano), Nicholas Rimmer (piano), Edvard Grieg, Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra, Johann Sebastian Bach, Camerata...
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Special offer. Hasse, J A: Didone Abbandonata
Theresa Holzhauser (Didone), Flavio Ferri-Benedetti (Enea), Valer Barna-Sabadus (Iarba), Magdalena Hinterdobler (Selene), Maria Celeng (Araspe) & Andreas Burkhart (Osmida)
Hofkapelle München, Michael Hofstetter
[Holzhauser] has a strong upper register, her tone is smoothly projected and she phrases eloquently...The silken quality of Barna-Sabadus's voice helps him to ripple through long-breathed roulades...the... —
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Salvatore Baccaloni, Frederick Jagel, Irra Petina, Ezio Pinza, Stella Roman, Lawrence Tibbett
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus, New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Bruno Walter
There has never been quite so electrifying a Forza as Walter's vital, brilliantly executed reading, which encapsulates the essence of the forthcoming drama. It confirms what few may know today,... —
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PANDA CLASSICS - Issue Nos. 1-3 (3CD box set)
Jeno Jando (piano), Peter Nagy (piano), Janos Sebestyen (piano), Idil Biret (piano), Francesco Nicolosi (piano), Klara Kormendi (piano), Kotaro Fukuma (piano), Sonia Rubinsky (piano)
Royal Swedish Airforce Band, Royal Artillery Band, Budapest Strauss Ensemble, BBC Concert Orchestra, New Zealand...
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Marjorie Lawrence (Brunnhilde), Dorothee Manski (Gutrune), Kathryn Meisle (Waltraute), Lauritz Melchior (Siegfried), Friedrich Schorr (Gunther), Eduard Habich (Alberich) & Ludwig Hofmann (Hagen)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Artur Bodanzky
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