Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
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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. — More…
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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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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... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
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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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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
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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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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms
RecommendedIvo Zidek (Oedipus), Vera Soukupova (Jocasta), Zdenek Kroupa (Messenger), Karel Berman (Creon), Eduard Haken (Tiresias), Antonin Zlesak (Shepherd), Jean Desailly (Narrator)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir (=Czech Philharmonic Chorus), Karel Ancerl, Josef Veselka
Oedipus Rex, to words by Jean Cocteau, is one of Stravinsky's most compelling theatre pieces, a powerful drama that re-enacts the full force of a glorious high spot in ancient culture. The fusion... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2000, First Choice
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Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky
Richard Burgin (violin), Viktor Polatschek (clarinet), Raymond Allard (bassoon), Roger Voisin (trumpet), Jacob Raichman (trombone), Charles Smith (percussion), Georges Moleux (bass), Georges Laurent (flute), Manuel Valerio (clarinet), Ernst Panenka (bassoon), Marcel Lafosse (trumpet), Georges Mager...
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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... — More…
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Martha Modl (mezzo-soprano), Helmut Krebs (tenor), Peter Pears (tenor), Heinz Rehfuss (bass), Jean Cocteau (narrator), Otto von Rohr (bass)
WDR Symphony Orchestra, West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cologne Radio Chorus, Igor Stravinsky
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