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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlo (Complete Opera recorded in 1993) Michael Sylvester, Aprile Millo, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Vladimir Chernov, Dolora Zajick / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2012 ] Release includes a booklet with a three language synopsis [English / French / German], full cast list and detailed track list |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Don Carlo (Complete Opera with libretto recorded in 1993) Michael Sylvester, Aprile Millo, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Vladimir Chernov, Dolora Zajick / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine [ Sony Classical / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1993 ] "Levine's performance of the five-act Italian Don Carlo supersedes all other versions, because he conducts Verdi's spacious score with such masterly skill and meticulous attention to detail, and has so magnificent an orchestra at his command" BBC |
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RAVEL / MOZART / MUSSORGSKY / R. STRAUSS / WAGNER / BACH / BRAHMS / etc
Fritz Reiner - The Complete Columbia Album Collection Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Broadcasting Concert Orchestra, Columbia String Ensemble, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ RCA / Sony Classical / 14 CD Box Set - released 11/Jun/2020 ] Limited 14CD set. When the 50-year-old Fritz Reiner was appointed conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1938, he was still relatively unfamiliar in his adopted American homeland. This pupil of Bartók at the Academy of Music in his native... |
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VERDI
Aida (Complete opera recorded in 1991) Placido Domingo, Aprile Millo, James Morris / Metropolitan Opera / James Levine [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2010 ] Release includes a booklet with a three language synopsis [English / French / German], full cast list and detailed track list |
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W. A. MOZART
Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (compelte opera recorded in 1961) Roberta Peters, Cesare Siepi, Kim Borg / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Erich Leinsdorf [ Sony Metropolitan Series / 3 CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "Roberta Peters' Susanna is delicious in the pert and sassy rather than vaguely vindictive manner, much in keeping with the overall mood, and it is beautifully sung, with a "Deh vieni" to remember." (ClassicsToday.com) |
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CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Alceste (complete opera recorded in 1941) with commentary introductions Rose Bampton, René Maison, Leonard Warren / New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Ettore Panizza [ Naxos Immortal Performances / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Radio broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1941. |
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WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded in 1972) Theo Adam, James King, Pilar Lorengar / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Thomas Schippers [ Sony Metropolitan Series / 3 CD - released 20/May/2011 ] Direct from the Metropolitan Opera's archives. These complete live recordings are taken from the Met's historic Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts and are newly remastered from the original sources. All feature great singers in live performance, at... |