Heritage Masters
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedCesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), Suzanne Danco (Donna Anna), Lisa della Casa (Donna Elvira), Fernando Corena (Leporello), Anton Dermota (Don Ottavio), Hilde Gueden (Zerlina), Walter Berry (Masetto), Kurt Böhme (Il Commendatore)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Josef Krips
A 1955 classic that still captivates thanks to Krips's darkly dramatic atmosphere and a ripe Viennese cast headed by Siepi's richly Italianate seducer, sardonic Corena and the brilliant Della... —
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Building a Library, July 2018, Also recommended
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Strauss, R: Arabella
Lisa della Casa (Arabella), Hilde Gueden (Zdenka), George London (Mandryka), Anton Dermota (Matteo), Otto Edelmann (Waldner), Ira Malaniuk (Adelaide), Mimi Coertse (Fiakermilli), Waldemar Kmentt (Elemer), Eberhard Wächter (Dominik)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Magisterial high-spirited and powerfully intelligent Beethoven playing from the great Katchen whose early death robbed the piano world of a towering artist. Rather dry sound. —
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Hilde Gueden (Adina), Giuseppe di Stefano (Nemorino), Fernando Corena (Dulcamara), Renato Capecchi (Belcore), Luisa Mandelli (Giannetta)
Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Hilde Gueden's Adina is properly coy and sweetly sung, Giuseppe di Stefano an affecting Nemorino, but Fernando Corena's Dulcamara steals the show. —
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Renata Tebaldi (Cio Cio San), Carlo Bergonzi (Pinkerton), Enzo Sordello (Sharpless), Angelo Mercuriali (Goro), Fiorenza Cossotto (Suzuki), Virgilio Carbonari (Il commissario imperiale), Paolo Washington (Lo zio Bonzo), Oscar Nanni (Yakusidè/L'ufficiale del Registro), Lidia Nerozzi (Kate Pinkerton)
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Brahms - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Clifford Curzon (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, George Szell, Hans Knappertsbusch
Curzon's 1962 account of Brahms No. 1 with Szell remains one of the work's finest recordings: noble, dramatic, poetic. His Brahms No. 2 with Knappertsbusch is excellent too. —
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Hilde Gueden (Susanna), Cesare Siepi (Figaro), Alfred Poell (Il Conte Almaviva), Lisa della Casa (La Contessa Almaviva), Suzanne Danco (Cherubino), Hilde Rössel-Majdan (Marcellina), Fernando Corena (Bartolo), Murray Dickie (Basilio)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Erich...
Kleiber's Figaro is a classic of the classics of the gramophone: beautifully played by the Vienna Phil, conducted with poise and vitality and a real sense of the drama unfolding through the... —
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Maria Reining (Marschallin), Ludwig Weber ((Baron Ochs), Sena Jurinac (Octavian), Alfred Poell (Faninal), Hilde Gueden (Sophie), Anton Dermota (Italian Singer), Peter Klein (Valzacchi), Hilde Rössl-Majdan (Annina), Judith Hellwig (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Walter Berry (Polizeikommissar)
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