Naxos - 50% off Hi-Res
Until 11th September 2024, we are offering 50% off Naxos Hi-Res downloads - a great opportunity to build your digital library in the highest possible sound quality.
Naxos - 50% off Hi-Res, Strauss, R (composer)
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This is a magnificent record. The Weimar Staatskapelle are rare visitors to disc, but they are a top-class orchestra, with superb strings which sound overwhelmingly, sensuously beautiful in... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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What makes Josephs Legende and this recording special is Strauss’s striking orchestral mastery...Halle’s Staatskapelle and their conductor Fabrice Bollon rise to these challenges in a performance... — More…
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Strauss, R: Capriccio
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Countess Madeleine), Eberhard Wächter (Count), Nicolai Gedda (Flamand), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Olivier), Hans Hotter (La Roche), Christa Ludwig (Clairon), Anna Moffo (Italian Singer)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
In the role of the Countess in Strauss's last opera, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf has no equals on CD...a peerless performance from her, full of magical detail both in the pointing of words and in... — More…
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Maria Reining, Ludwig Weber, Sena Jurinac, Alfred Poell, Hilde Gueden, Judith Hellwig, Peter Klein, Hilde Rössel-Majdan
Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Erich Kleiber
Sena Jurinac is a charming Octavian, strong and sympathetic, and Hilde Gueden a sweetly characterful Sophie, not just a wilting innocent. Ludwig Weber characterises deliciously in a very Viennese... — More…
3 CDs
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Special offer. Strauss - Four Last Songs
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano)
Weimar Staatskapelle, Michael Halász
Ricarda Merbeth, a regular Marschallin in Vienna and exponent of other big Strauss roles in Europe, has also been Bayreuth's Elisabeth for the past six years – just as Pauline de Ahna, Strauss's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (Prima Donna/Ariadne), Rita Streich (Zerbinetta), Irmgard Seefried (The Composer), Rudolf Schock (The Tenor/Bacchus), Alfred Neugebauer (Major Domo), Karl Dönch (The Music Teacher) (An Officer) Gerhard Unger (An Officer), Lisa Otto (Naiad), Grace Hoffman (Dryad), Anny Felbermayer...
Karajan's recording may yield top position to Rudolf Kempe's 1968 account, but surely to no other. His feeling for the music, as well as his cast - especially Schwarzkopf's Ariadne, Streich's... — More…
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Salome
Christel Goltz, Julius Patzak, Margareta Kenney, Hans Braun, Anton Dermota, Else Schürhoff
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss
Mark Obert-Thorn has made one of his miraculous transformations of the sound, somehow adding lustre and body to the strings...giving the whole recording, voices and orchestra alike, added ambient... — More…
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, etc.
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdenek Kosler
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Lotte Lehmann (Marschallin), Richard Mayr (Baron Ochs), Maria Olszewska (Octavian), Elisabeth Schumann (Sophie), Viktor Madin (Faninal), Hermann Gallos (Valzacchi), Bella Paalen (Annina), Aenne Michalsky (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Karl Ettl (Polizeikommissar)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert...
The performance remains peerless, with all four principal soloists at their peak — More…
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Special offer. R. Strauss: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
and Beethoven: Piano Quintet in E flat major
Dennis Brain (horn), Walter Gieseking (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Wind Ensemble, Wolfgang Sawallisch
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