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Elgar: The Violin Music
Marat Bisengaliev (violin), Benjamin Frith (piano) & Camilla Bisengalieva (oboe)
West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra, Bundit Ungrangsee
from the beginning I was captivated. The orchestra plays the opening phrase precisely, with nicely shaded brass; I would actually have liked a bit more from them. The pacing, so vital to Elgar,... —
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Marjorie Lawrence (Brünnhilde), Lauritz Melchior (Siegfried), Ludwig Hofmann (Hagen), Friedrich Schorr (Gunther), Eduard Habich (Alberich), Katheryn Meisle (Waltraute), Dorothee Manski (Gutrune/Third Norn), Edithea Fleischer (Woglinde), Irra Petina (Wellgunde/Second Norn), Doris Doe (Flosshilde/First...
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5
Igor Levit (piano), Xiaohan Wang (piano), Henri Sigfridsson (piano), Norie Takahashi (piano), David Kadouch (piano)
Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Muller-Bruhl
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Beethoven: 30 of the Best
Silvia Capova (piano), Inga Nielsen (soprano), Boris Giltburg (piano), Takako Nishizaki (violin), Jenö Jandó (piano), Ethella Chuprik (piano), Lori Phillips (soprano), Robynne Redmon (mezzo-soprano), James Taylor (tenor), Jay Baylon (bass-baritone), Mary Kathryn van Osdale (violin), Maria Kliegel...
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Special offer. Handel: Rinaldo
Kimberly Barber (Rinaldo), Laura Whalen (Almirena), Jennifer Enns Modolo (Eustazio), Barbara Hannigan (Armida), Marion Newman (Goffredo), Sean Watson (Argante)
The Aradia Ensemble, Kevin Mallon
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Busoni: Doktor Faust
Dietrich Henschel (Doktor Faust), Daniel Brenna (Mephistopheles), Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Wagner/Master of Ceremonies), Joseph Dahdahv (Duke of Parma), Olga Bezsmertna (Duchess of Parma)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Cornelius Meister, Davide Livermore
To this new interpretation [Henschel] brings detail and intellectual rigour while the voice remains an exceptional one...Meister and his forces provide an honourable account of one of the 20th... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Martha Mödl, Leonie Rysanek, Ferdinand Frantz, Ludwig Suthaus, Margarete Klose & Gottlob Frick
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Special offer. Wagner: Lohengrin
Wolfgang Windgassen (Lohengrin), Eleanor Steber (Elsa), Hermann Uhde (Telramund), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Josef Greindl (King Heinrich), Hans Braun (Herald)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Joseph Keilberth
[The cast includes] Hermann Uhde's cleanly sung Telramund, Astrid Varnay's autocratic, beautifully studied Ortrud, and the interesting outsider casting of Eleanor Steber opposite a dynamically... —
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Mallon's new recordings with his Canadian period instrument ensemble offers honest, unfussy readings...while the Aradia Ensemble rarely wants for urbanity, warmth and clarity, a certain under-characterisation... —
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