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SCHUMANN / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / LEIMER / BRAHMS
Karajan and his Soloists I (1948-1958 Official Remastered Edition) Walter Gieseking, Hans Richter-Haaser (piano) Dennis Brain (horn) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic,Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Karajan Official Remastered Edition comprises 13 box sets containing official remasterings of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, and which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalogue. For... |
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Little Walter
Confessin' The Blues (LP) [ Chess / LP ] This collection of 1953-1959 recordings from blues harmonica player Little Walter was originally released in 1974. Features the song "Rock Bottom," featuring Muddy Waters on slide guitar. 180 gram vinyl reissue. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte [The Magic Flute] (Complete Opera recorded in 1964) Nicolai Gedda, Gundula Janowitz, Walter Berry, Lucia Popp / Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ Warner Classics Legendary Opera Recordings / 2 CD Box Set - released 23/Sep/2016 ] "I have never heard The Magic Flute sound so magical and the complete ease and seeming rightness of this performance is a wonder. The cast, chorus and orchestra are inspired under Klemperer, whom I here salute as a real genius" (Gramophone) |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte [The Magic Flute] (Complete Opera recorded in 1964) Nicolai Gedda, Gundula Janowitz, Walter Berry, Lucia Popp / Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] "I have never heard The Magic Flute sound so magical and the complete ease and seeming rightness of this performance is a wonder. The cast, chorus and orchestra are inspired under Klemperer, whom I here salute as a real genius" (Gramophone) |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte [The Magic Flute] (Complete Opera recorded in 1964) [3 LP] Nicolai Gedda, Gundula Janowitz, Walter Berry, Lucia Popp / Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ Warner Classics LP / 3 LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] "I have never heard The Magic Flute sound so magical and the complete ease and seeming rightness of this performance is a wonder. The cast, chorus and orchestra are inspired under Klemperer, whom I here salute as a real genius" (Gramophone) |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (compete opera recorded in 1962) Gottlob Frick, Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry, Ingeborg Hallstein / Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Klemperer [ Warner Classics the Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] "Christa Ludwig, a mezzo rather than true soprano, brings dark colours to the role of Leonore, while tenor Jon Vickers is a superb Florestan." BBC Music Magazine, January 2012 |
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CARL MARIA von WEBER
Clarinet Concertos Walter Boeykens, Paul Meyer, François-René Duchable / Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, James Conlon [ Warner Classics Erato Apex / CD - released 20/Dec/2014 ] Apex - the budget label from Warners |
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Walter Brennan
Old Shep [ CD ] |
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Walter Trout
Blues for the Modern Daze [ CD ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Waldteufel: Famous Waltzes Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, Alfred Walter [ Naxos / CD ] "an attractive programme....a delightful disc" - Fanfare |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Famous Operetta Overtures Zecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra Kosice, Alfred Walter [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "In our current age, very few are the opportunities where so little money can buy so much happiness." Fanfare |
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KABALEVSKY
Suite - The Comedians / Piano Concerto No 1 / etc Anatoly Sheludiakov (piano) / Russian Cinematographic Symphony Orchestra/Walter Mnatsakanov [ Alto / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] " While Kabalevsky may, on this evidence, lack the gritty individuality of Prokofiev or Shostakovich it would be a shame to ignore this smoothly attractive, and only occasionally brash, music." (MusicWeb Sept 2014) |
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Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness [ Verve Originals / CD - released 18/Aug/2008 ] |
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Schubert;
Symphonie h-Moll D 759 Symphonie No. 1 D-Dur Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bruno Walter [ ORFEO / CD - released 3/Apr/2002 ] |
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BRAHMS
Piano Quartets Op.25, 26 & 60 Beaux Arts Trio (with Walter Trampler - viola) [ Pentatone SACD / 2 SACD - released 11/Mar/2006 ] The first quartets written by Brahms were not strings quartets, as one might expect, but these piano quartets, with which Brahms refers to the works written by Mozart in this genre and on which he worked simultaneously |
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WAGNER/ LEONCAVALLO / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN / BIZET / SULLIVAN / etc
Great British Tenors Ben Davies, John Coates, Gerwase Elwes, Walter Hyde, Frank Mullings, John McCormack, Joseph Hislop, Parry Jones, Hubert Eisdell, Tudor Davies, etc [ Heritage / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] Commercial recording arrived at the ideal time to capture a golden age of British tenor singing. A range of distinctive qualities had developed in the 19th century - firm yet elegant tone, emphasis on text and on clarity of diction - that... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker (Complete ballet recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Berlin State Ballet / Iana Salenko, Marian Walter, Michael Banzha, Arshak Ghalumyan / Robert Reimer (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2016 ] In combination with the brilliance of modern dance, this production - a loving reconstruction designed as a great ballet féerie - reveals its nostalgic charm and the promise of Christmas: it's as if Tchaikovsky had composed the falling of snowflakes |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (Complete ballet recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Berlin State Ballet / Iana Salenko, Marian Walter, Rishat Yulbarisov, Beatrice Knop / Robert Reimer (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Oct/2016 ] When she is finally released from an evil spell by the kiss of a young prince, the Sleeping Beauty awakes and is - despite of a hundred years of sleep - as beautiful as a young woman. The love of the prince is simply stronger than the curse that... |
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BARTOK / R. STRAUSS / PUCCINI / BEETHOVEN / WAGNER
Birgit Nilsson: The Great Live Recordings [1953-1976] Birgit Nilsson, with, Regina Resnik, Leonie Rysanek, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jon Vickers, Helen Donath, Walter Berry, etc [ Sony Classics / 31 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2018 ] "Many of these live recordings have been remastered, mostly very adequately, from radio broadcasts, and include samples at least of all her major roles...The casts for some of these performances are the stuff of legend now." The Guardian |
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Bruno Walter
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] |