Bayerische Staatsoper live
Live recordings of the Bavarian State Opera.
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Brigitte Fassbaender (Octavian), Claire Watson (Marschallin), Karl Ridderbusch (Ochs), Lucia Popp (Sophie), Benno Kusche (Faninal), Annelie Waas (Marianne), David Thaw (Valzacchi), Margarethe Bence (Annina) & Gerhard Unger (Italian singer)
Bavarian State Opera, Carlos Kleiber
This performance from 1973 is notable for its extraordinary textural clarity, in this densest of scores, and its rhythmic vitality. The vocal hero of the occasion is Brigitte Fassbaender as... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Margaret Price (Fiordiligi), Brigitte Fassbaender (Dorabella), Peter Schreier (Ferrando), Wolfgang Brendel (Guglielmo), Reri Grist (Despina), Theo Adam (Don Alfonso)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Staatsoper, Wolfgang Sawallisch
The cast is stellar. Margaret Price's studio Cosi, made seven years earlier, finds her in wonderful form but greatly handicapped by Klemperer's marmoreal tempos. Here, however, she sounds interpretatively... —
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'
RecommendedBayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber
If you are a connoisseur of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony...then this reissue is imperative. There is a caveat: the recording has been saved from an audio cassette version, the original master... —
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Building a Library, November 2011, First Choice
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Special offer. Janáček: The Excursions of Mr Broucek
Fritz Wunderlich, Kurt Böhme, Wilma Lipp, Kieth Engen, Antonie Fahberg, Lilian Benningsen, Paul Kuen, Karl Ostertag
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Joseph Keilberth
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Julia Varady (Lisa), Elena Obraztsova (Countess), Vladimir Atlantov (Hermann), Alexander Voroshilo (Tomsky), Bodo Brinkmann (Yeletsky), Ludmila Shemchuk (Pauline), Yoshihisa Yamaji (Chekalinsky), Karl Helm (Surin), Ulrich Reß (Chaplitsky), Alfred Kuhn (Narumov), Friedrich Lenz (Master of Ceremonies),...
[Varady is] in radiant voice here, convincingly youthful and appealing at her first encounter with Herman, throwing caution to the wind as she goes to her death in the Neva. Vladimir Atlantov's... —
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Salome
Max Lorenz, Irmgarth Barth, Inge Borkh, Hans Hotter, Lorenz Fehenberger, Katja Sabo
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Joseph Keilberth
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Strauss, R: Feuersnot
Karl Ostertag, Max Proebstl, Maud Cunitz, Antonie Fahberg, Irmgarth Barth, Liselotte Nölser, Marcel Cordes, Georg Wieter, Karl Hoppe, Kieth Engen
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Rudolf Kempe
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Strauss, R: Die Ägyptische Helena
Leonie Rysanek, Annelies Kupper, Bernd Aldenhoff, Hermann Uhde, Richard Holm, Ira Malaniuk
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Joseph Keilberth
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Strauss, R: Die schweigsame Frau, Op. 80
Reri Grist, Lotte Schädle, Martha Mödl, Donald Grobe, Barry McDaniel, Kurt Böhme, Benno Kusche
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Wolfgang Sawallisch
That ardent and devoted Straussian, William Mann, slated this production (in Opera) when he saw it at its première in Munich in 1971 because the score was 'cut to ribbons', declaring that it... —
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