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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'
RecommendedBayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber
If you are a connoisseur of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony...then this reissue is imperative. There is a caveat: the recording has been saved from an audio cassette version, the original master... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2011, First Choice
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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... — More…
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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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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
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…possibly the most compelling recorded performance of Max Reger's only surviving piano concerto… The performance marries drama with poetry in an ideal proportions: Erdmann's timing is just... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
George London (Dutchman), Josef Greindl (Daland), Leonie Rysanek (Senta), Fritz Uhl (Erik), Res Fischer (Mary), Georg Paskuda (Steuermann)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Sawallisch
A blistering mono performance live from Bayreuth. Wolfgang Sawallisch takes no musical prisoners as Leonie Rysanek tears through Senta, all but incinerating George London’s Dutchman. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Nicolai, C O: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Annelies Kupper, Karl Schmitt-Walter (Frau & Herr Fluth), Max Proebstl (Falstaff), Lilian Benningsen, Kieth Engen (Frau & Herr Reich), Liselotte Fölser (Anna Reich), Richard Holm (Fenton), Paul Kuën (Junker Spärlich) & Rudolf Wünzer (Dr. Cajus)
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Schumann: Spanische Liederspiel & Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Edith Mathis (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Peter Schreier (tenor), Walter Berry (baritone), Paul Schilhawsky (piano), Erik Werba (piano)
Salzburger Festspiele, 25. August 1974
The historical value is undeniable and of considerable musical value as well. — More…
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019, Collectionneur
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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…... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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