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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.10 / Symphony in C Major for Piano, Cello and Violin Op. 56 Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio / English Chamber Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Walter Weller [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 7/Aug/2003 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
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MAHLER
Das Lied Von Der Erde / Drei Ruckert Lieder [recorded in 1952] Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) Julius Patzak (tenor) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde / Three Ruckert Lieder - Historical Recordings (1952) Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) / Julius Patzak (tenor) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Bruno Walter [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 18/Oct/2009 ] 50 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME (No 31) - BBC MUSIC |
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MAHLER
Kindertotenlier / Symphony No 4 (Rec 1945-49) Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) / Vienna Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] The English contralto Kathleen Ferrier (1912-1953) had a brief but glorious decade of music-making before being cruelly struck down in her prime with cancer. |
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MAHLER
Das Lied von der Erde / etc (recorded in 1936 & 1938) Kerstin Thorborg (contralto) Charles Kullman (tenor) / Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Among the most admired conductors of his generation, Bruno Walter, who was born in Berlin on 15th September 1876 and died in Beverly Hills on 17th February 1962, developed a close association with Mahler right from the outset of his career. During... |
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BEETHOVEN
Fidelio (complete opera recorded live in 1941) Kirsten Flagstad / Rene Maison / Julius Huehn / Alexander Kipnis / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Bruno Walter [ Naxos Historical Immortal Performances / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] |
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JOSEF STRAUSS
Edition Vol. 2 (incls Diana Polka & Amazons Quadrille) Kosice Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra / Alfred Walter [ Marco Polo / CD - released 20/May/2006 ] "(Alfred) Walter, of course, has proved himself to be extremely adept Recommended." - Fanfare |
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HANSON
Merry Mount, Op. 31 Lauren Flanigan / Walter MacNeil / Richard Zeller / Northwest Boychoir / Seattle Girls' Choir / Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] The plot of his 1933 opera, Merry Mount, set in New England in 1625 during a conflict between the Puritans and the Cavaliers, is anything but merry. However, the composer described the music as “warm-blooded…essentially a lyrical work [that] makes... |
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VIVALDI / HANDEL / TELEMANN / PURCELL etc
Un'alma innamorata-A Soul in Love Linda Perillo (soprano) / Cordaria / Walter Reiter [ Signum / CD - released 1/Jan/2003 ] This new collection from Cordaria features cantatas for soprano, violin and basso continuo, written by composers including Samuel Capricornus, Dietrich Buxtehude, Antonio Vivaldi , Georg Phillipp Telemann and Georg Frederic Handel. |
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Little Walter
Boom, Boom Singles As & Bs 1952 - 60 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] Little Walter was without a doubt the most influential blues harmonica player of the 20th Century, and here for the first time in one collection are the A & B sides of every single he released from his debut in 1952 to 1960. |
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Little Walter / Muddy Waters / Sonny Boy Williamson / Howlin' Wolf
Classic Blues Masters - Four Classic Albums (The Best Of Little Walter / The Best Of Muddy Waters / Down And Out Blues / Sings The Blues) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 22/May/2020 ] AVID Roots continues with its Four Classic Roots Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD release featuring one album apiece from Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson & Howlin' Wolf, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel |
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MAHLER
Symphony No.1 (with Strauss - Tod und Verklarung) London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bruno Walter [ Testament / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] In the winter of 1947 Bruno Walter returned to London to conduct some concerts with an orchestra that he had appeared with several times since the end of the War - the London Philharmonic. |
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SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT
Lieder Recordings, Vol. 3 (1941) Lotte Lehmann (soprano) / Bruno Walter and Paul Ulanowsky (accompanists) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] With her impassioned delivery, warm tone, telling word-painting and occasional use of portamento, Lehmann makes her own very personal yet utterly compelling case for Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -Leben and Dichterliebe. |
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DVORAK
Rusalka (Complete opera) Marcel Rosca, Ursula Furi-Bernhard, Nelly Boschkova, Walter Coppola / Academic Choir Ivan Goran & Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] 'The standard of the orchestral playing is high' Gramophone 1999 |
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JOHANN STRAUSS
Eine Nacht in Venedig [A night in Venice] (complete opera broadcast in 1938) Marcel Wittrisch / Karl Schmitt-Walter / Carla Spletter / Heinrich Steiner (cond) [ Naxos Immortal Performances / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2010 ] |
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MARTINU
Violin Concerto No. 2 / Symphony No. 1 Lorenzo Gatto (violin) / National Orchestra of Belgium, Walter Weller [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "Weller has a natural feel of the swaying gait of Martinu's individual rhythmic language and his conducting, allied to fine orchestral playing and exceptionally good sound, certainly makes an impact." (Gramophone) |
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Nellie Melba (soprano) with Enrico Caruso, tenor, Charles Gilibert, baritone, Studio Orchestra / Walter B. Rogers, conductor
Nellie Melba: American Recordings, Vol. 1 (1907) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "A representative collection of Melba is more of a necessity than a luxury and admirers should have these 1907 sessions in their collection." (MusicWeb March 2005) |
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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) |