Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
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Special offer. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Apollon Musagète
RecommendedJennifer Johnston (Jocasta), Stuart Skelton (Oedipus), Gidon Saks (Creon) & Fanny Ardant (narrator)
Gentlemen of the Monteverdi Choir & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Johnston's superb interpretation lifts the whole performance up a couple of notches...But John Eliot Gardiner's conducting somehow misses the work's elusive power. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2014
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Building a Library, May 2018, Recommended Recording
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Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Stravinsky
RecommendedPaul Crossley (piano), Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), John Aler (tenor), Anne Sofie von Otter (Jocasta), Vinson Cole (Oedipus), Nicolai Gedda (Shepherd), Hans Sotin (Tiresias), Simon Estes (Messenger), Patrice Chéreau (narrator)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Los...
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, July 2019, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, July 2023, Recommended Recording (The Rite of Spring)
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Special offer. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
RecommendedJessye Norman (Jocaste), Thomas Moser (Oedipus), Alexandru Ionita (Shepherd), Michel Piccoli (narrator)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Colin Davis
The pace is unerringly right, the rhythms never monotonously mechanical, the score's phrasing and accents scrupulously realized...Jocastas notoriously tend to unsteadiness, but Jessye Norman... —
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
RecommendedJessye Norman (Jocasta) & Peter Schreier (Oedipus), Bryn Terfel (Creon), Harry Peeters (Tiresias), Robert Swensen (Shepherd), Michio Tatara (Messenger)
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Les Noces
Edward Fox, Jennifer Lane, David Wilson-Johnson, Andrew Greenan, Joseph Cornwell, Alison Wells (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Martyn Hill (tenor), Alan Ewing (bass)
The Simon Joly Male Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, International Piano Quartet, Tristan Fry Percussion Ensemble, Simon...
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Karajan: Stravinsky & Oedipus Rex - Bruckner: Te Deum
Nicolai Gedda, Arnoldo Foà, Mario Petri, Magda Laszlò, Nestore Catalani, Aldo Bertocci, Rita Streich, Dagmanr Hermann, Ernst Haefliger, Hans Braun
Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della Rai, Coro di Roma della RAI, Chor Der Singverein Der Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde, Herbert...
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Anne Sofie von Otter (Jocasta), Vinson Cole (Oedipus), Nicolai Gedda (Shepherd), Hans Sotin (Tiresias), Simon Estes (Messenger), Patrice Chéreau (narrator)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Chorus, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Lajos Kozma (Oedipus), Tatiana Troyanos (Jocasta), Franz Crass (Creon), Luigi Ron (Tiresias), Franco Jacopucci (Shepherd), Giancarlo Sbragia (narrator)
Orchestre symphonique de la radio italienne de Rome, Claudio Abbado
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Special offer. Three Orchestral Preludes for Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
AJ Glueckert (tenor), Alex Esposito (bass-baritone), Adolfo Corrado (bass), Ekaterina Semenchuck (mezzo-soprano), Sebastian Geyer (bass-baritone), Luca Bernard (tenor), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Daniele Gatti
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Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky
Peter Pears, Martha Mödl, Heinz Rehfuss, Otto von Rohr, Helmut Krebs & Werner Hessenland
Verstäkter Männerchor of Northwest German Radio & Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
Great, even definitive performance, with Pears in the title role and Modl as Jocasta giving immensely impressive accounts. The narration is in German, there are no notes, but it's an indispensable... —
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