Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
We're delighted to offer a more affordable way to begin or continue your opera journey, with up to 40% off selected titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, until 14th August 2024.
Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Karl Böhm (conductor)
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 RecommendedElisabeth Schwarzkopf (Fiordiligi), Christa Ludwig (Dorabella), Giuseppe Taddei (Guglielmo), Alfredo Kraus (Ferrando), Hanny Steffek (Despina), Walter Berry (Don Alfonso)
Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Karl Böhm
Ludwig’s in fuller voice (and more alive to Dorabella’s humour and sensuality) here in 1962 than on her earlier recording for Böhm; 'Smanie implacabili' packs a real dramatic mezzo punch (she... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
3 CDs
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Strauss, R: Elektra Inge Borkh (Elektra), Jean Madeira (Klytämnestra), Marianne Schech (Chrysothemis), Fritz Uhl (Aegisth) & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Orest)
Chor der Staatsoper Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden, Karl Böhm
It is a joy to hear [Inge Borkh’s] high notes, loud or soft, taken so securely and so dead centre. She makes such things as the end of the Agamemnon monologue, the trying passage at the end... — More…
2 CDs
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Verdi: Macbeth RecommendedSherrill Milnes (Macbeth), Christa Ludwig (Lady Macbeth), Karl Ridderbusch (Banquo), Carlo Cossutta (Macduff), Gildis Flossman (Dama) & Ewald Aichberger (Malcolm)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
Lady Macbeth has rarely seemed more of a Lady than in Ludwig’s hands on this live 1970 recording from Vienna – her arch-manipulator is regal, elegant and icily pragmatic right up until the final... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
2 CDs
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Berg: Wozzeck Hermann Uhde (Wozzeck), Kurt Baum (Tambourmajor), Charles Anthony (Andres), Paul Franke (Hauptmann), Karl Dönch (Doktor), Alessio de Paolis (De Narr), Eleanor Steber (Marie), Margaret Roggero (Margret), Alice Plotkin (Mariens Knabe), Earl Ringland (Ein Soldat) & Charles Kuestner (Townsman)
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2 CDs
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Theo Adam (Sachs), Gwyneth Jones (Eva), Janis Martin (Magdalene), Waldemar Kmentt (Walther), Hermin Esser (David), Thomas Hemsley (Beckmesser) & Karl Ridderbusch (Pogner)
Choir and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Karl Böhm
4 CDs
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Strauss, R: Elektra Christel Goltz (Elektra), Leonie Rysanek (Chrysothemis), Jean Madeira (Klytemnestra), Franz Klarwein (Aegisthus), Hermann Uhde (Orestes)
Karl Böhm
2 CDs
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Erich Kunz (Figaro), Irmgard Seefried (Susanna), Paul Schöffler (Count), Lisa Della Casa (Countess), Sena Jurinac (Cherubino), Oskar Czerwenka (Bartolo), Rosette Anday (Marcellina), Murray Dickie (Basilio), Anny Felbermayer (Barbarina), Walter Berry (Antonio)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,...
The singers here are vocally pre-eminent and the performance is alert, theatrically motivated and (at times) moving…Despite Böhm’s efforts there is sometimes a struggle between the old portentous... — More…
2 CDs
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Strauss, R: Die Frau ohne Schatten Hans Hopf (Emperor), Leonie Rysanek (Empress), Ludwig Weber (Barak, the Dyer), Christel Goltz (Dyer's Wife), Elisabeth Höngen (Nurse), Kurt Böhme (Spirit-Messenger), Karl Terkal (Apparition of a Youth) & Judith Hellwig (Voice of the Falcon)
Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
3 CDs
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Otto Edelmann (Hans Sachs), Aase Nordmo-Lövberg (Eva), Sebastian Feiersinger (Walther), Giorgio Tozzi (Pogner), Karl Dönch (Beckmesser) & Regina Resnik (Magdalene)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House, Karl Böhm
4 CDs
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), Eleanor Steber (Donna Anna), Jan Peerce (Don Ottavio), Lisa Della Casa (Donna Elvira), Fernando Corena (Leporello), Giorgio Tozzi (Il Commendatore), Theodor Uppmann (Masetto), Roberta Peters (Zerlina)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Karl Böhm
3 CDs
Original price ($17.75) Reduced price $14.50Downloads
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