Orfeo d'Or
Historic recordings.
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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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Special offer. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Grace Hoffmann (alto), Josef Traxel (tenor), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Erik Sædén (baritone), Fritz Uhl (tenor), Josef Greindl (bass), Hermann Winkler (tenor), Egmont Koch (baritone)
Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Wolfgang Sawallisch
Nilsson is heard at a pre-Wieland staging of her Isolde – more flashily indulgent (the tope notes are presented as big events) but already loving and passionate in a unique way (try ‘Tod uns... —
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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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Building a Library, June 2012, Also Recommended
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedKathleen Battle (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo)
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine
Levine's 1989 Salzburg account would seem to have been fashioned with the delicate sensibilities of the glamorous festival audience in mind. It's a reading which dutifully pushes most of the... —
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Irmgard Seefried
Vienna 1943-1952
Irmgard Seefried (soprano) with Leopold Ludwig, Viktor Graef & Erik Werba (piano)
A lovely collection: if you had to choose a single disc to represent Seefried in song you could not do better than this...Her personal warmth permeates the voice, and in these recordings one... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Frank Martin: Der Zaubertrank / Le vin herbé
Julius Patzak (Tristan), Maria Cebotari (Isot), Endré Koréh (König Marke), Hilde Zadek (Brangäne), Maria Ilosvay (Die Mutter Isots), Dagmar Hermann (Isot die Weißhändige), Alfred Poell (Sprecher), Wilhelm Friedrich (Kaherdin) & Karl Dönch (Herzog von Hoël)
Chorus of the Vienna State Opera...
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Schumann: Dichterliebe & Liederkreis opp. 24 & 39
RecommendedPeter Schreier (tenor), András Schiff (piano)
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Building a Library, June 2010, Featured
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Ludwig Weber (Daland), Astrid Varnay (Senta), Wolfgang Windgassen (Erik), Elisabeth Schärtel (Mary), Josef Traxel (Der Steuermann) & Hermann Uhde (Der Holländer)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Hans Knappertsbusch
Maestro Knappertsbusch is on the concentrated form of his 1951 Munich Tristan. …all is steely strength, realised through dynamic sensitivity and spacious tempi… Any suspicion that Astrid Varnay…... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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