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The A-Z of Pianists
by Jonathan Summers
300 Biographies and Selected Historical Recordings, including Vladimir Horowitz, Ferruccio Busoni, Sergei Rachmaninov, Josef Lhévinne, Ignacy Paderewski & Clara Haskil
Book and discs are outstanding achievements at every level and invaluable to anyone with the slightest interest in the piano. —
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Brahms: Complete Symphonies
and other orchestral works
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Paul Schoeffler, Hilde Gueden, Gunther Treptow, Karl Dönch, Otto Edelmann, Anton Dermota & Else Schürhoff
Vienna State Opera Chorus & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch
The cast centres around the nobel Hans Sachs of Paul Schoeffler in one of his very finest recordings, opposite the totally enchanting Eva of Hilde Gueden...Knappertsbusch's direction is spacious... —
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Life and Works - Antonin Dvorak
This set includes a spoken commentary on the life and works of Dvorak, written and narrated by Jeremy Siepmann, with Sean Barrett in the role of Dvorak.
Sean Barrett
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Rossini: Guillaume Tell
Andrew Foster-Williams (Tell), Alessandra Volpe (Hedwige), Judith Howarth (Mathilde), Michael Spyres (Arnold), Tara Stafford (Jemmy), Giulio Pelligra (Rodolphe), Artavazd Sargsyan (Ruodi), Nahuel Di Pierro (Walther Fürst/Melchthal), Raffaele Facciolà (Gesler), Marco Filippo Romano (Leuthold)
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Foster-Williams's Tell is solemn and determined, if a little rough around the edges, Michael Spyres's Arnold generally fluent and lyrical, Judith Howarth's Mathilde passionate and engaged, Tara... —
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Life and Works - Frédéric Chopin
This selection contains narration by Jeremy Siepmann, Anton Lesser, Neville Jason, Elaine Claxton and Karen Archer about Chopin's life and works
Idil Biret, Maria Kliegel & Bernd Glemser
Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic & Orchestra Kosice
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Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Gun-Brit Barkmin (Brünnhilde), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried), Eric Halfvarson (Hagen), Shenyang (Gunther), Amanda Majeski (Gutrune), Peter Kálmán (Alberich), Michelle DeYoung (Waltraute)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
Barkmin brings imagination and flair. It’s quite a ‘white’ voice and not a huge one but she’s a committed projector of the drama. Brenna’s voice, again not heavy but well focused, certainly... —
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Exaggeration and excess are certainly major ingredients of Szymanowski’s musical language, and the question for interpreters is whether to exaggerate them further or to temper them. Martin Roscoe... —
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The A-Z of Conductors
by David Patmore
Includes Arturo Toscanini, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Leopold Stokowski, Thomas Beecham, Willem Mengelberg, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein
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Life and Works - Ludwig van Beethoven
This selection includes narration by Jeremy Siepmann, Bob Peck, Neville Jason, David Timson, Elaine Claxton, and Karen Archer about Beethoven's life and works
Read by Jeremy Siepmann & Bob Peck
Béla Drahos, Christoph von Dohnányi, Barry Wordsworth, Kenneth Jean, Stephen Gunzenhauser
Ondrej Lenárd & Johannes Wildner
