Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
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Puccini: Turandot
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Turandot), Luciano Pavarotti (Calaf), Montserrat Caballé (Liù), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Timur), Tom Krause (Ping), Pier Francesco Poli (Pang), Piero De Palma (Pong), Peter Pears (L'imperatore Altoum), Sabin Markov (Un mandarino)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis Choir, Zubin...
Sutherland gives an intensely appealing interpretation, while Pavarotti gives a performance equally imaginative. Mehta directs a gloriously rich and dramatic performance. Still the best-sounding... — More…
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Building a Library, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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This set gives an invaluable historical cross-section of Antipodean singers in both commercial and rare archive recordings. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Re-issue of the Month
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listen to the astounding talent of the young Pavarotti and your jaw will drop. — More…
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Puccini: Turandot
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Turandot), Luciano Pavarotti (Calaf), Montserrat Caballé (Liù), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Timur), Tom Krause (Ping), Pier Francesco Poli (Pang), Piero De Palma (Pong), Peter Pears (L'imperatore Altoum), Sabin Markov (Un mandarino)
John Alldis Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin...
Turandot is a psychologically complex work fusing appalling sadism with self-sacrificing devotion.
The icy Princess of China has agreed to marry any man of royal blood who can solve three riddles... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, July 2012, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24
RecommendedNicolai Gedda, Jules Bastin, Josephine Veasey, Richard Van Allan, Gillian Knight
Ambrosian Singers, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Choral Performance
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Building a Library, February 2018, Also Recommended
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
RecommendedSung in English
Peter Pears (Evangelist), Heather Harper (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor), Gwynne Howell (Jesus), John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
Britten characteristically refuses to follow any set tradition, whether Baroque, Victorian or whatever, and, with greater extremes of tempo than is common (often strikingly fast), the result... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Berlioz: Requiem
RecommendedRonald Dowd (tenor) & Denis Wick (trombone)
London Symphony Chorus, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, John Alldis Choir & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Obsequies don't come much grander than this coupling under the attentive direction of a consummate Berlioz champion. There are choral strains but the orchestral detail is superb. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 14th Awards (1971), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 14th Awards (1971), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem), etc.
RecommendedRonald Dowd (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, John Alldis Choir, Wandsworth School Boy's Choir, Sir Colin Davis
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Grammy Awards, 14th Awards (1971), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 14th Awards (1971), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedJon Vickers (Enée), Josephine Veasey (Didon), Berit Lindholm (Cassandre), Peter Glossop (Chorèbe, Le spectre de Chorèbe), Pierre Thau (Priam, Un soldat troyen, Mercure), Anthony Raffell (Panthée), David Lennox (Helenus), Anne Howells (Ascagne), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Hécube, Le spectre de Cassandre),...
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Grammy Awards, 13th Awards (1970), Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 13th Awards (1970), Classical Album of the Year
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