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RACHMANINOV / BIZET / PUCCINI / VERDI / DONIZETTI / RACHMANINOV
Glyndebourne: Comedy & Tragedy [Carmen / L'elisir d'amore / The Miserly Knight / Gianni Schicchi / Falstaff] Glynebourne Opera / Anne Sofie von Otter, Sergei Leiferkus, Ekaterina Siurina, Christopher Purves [ Opus Arte DVD / 6 DVD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Five Classic Opera Productions from the Glyndebourne Festival (2002-2009) |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas For Bass Matthias Goerne (baritone), Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] "Freiburg Baroque are at the top of their game: lithe, shapely, tuneful...And the singing? Matthias Goerne is all breath and vowels and gravel and intensity." The Guardian, 17th August 2017 *** |
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas Gottfried Von Der Goltz [ Aparte / 2 CD - released 7/Sep/2018 ] The Konzertmeister of the Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz, finally records the masterpiece of the repertoire for solo violin: Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonatas and Partitas. Nicolas Bartholomée's sound recording conveys the... |
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MOZART
Mozart: Youth Symphonies Gottfried von der Goltz, Freiburger Barockorchester [ Aparté / CD - released 12/Nov/2019 ] It is true that images have the power to keep a trace of the past. Gottfried von der Goltz and the Freiburger Barockorchestra prove, with this recording, that music, too, conceals the secret of the memory deep within. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D Op 123 Gundula Janowitz (sop) Christa Ludwig (mezzo) Walter Berry (bass) / Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon CD + Blu-ray audio / CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Newly remastered by Emil Berliner Studios and presented on Blu-ray Audio in 24bit/192kHz + 1 CD produced from the new remastering |
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SIBELIUS
Complete Solo Songs Helena Juntunen (soprano) Anne Sofie von Otter, Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano) Dan Karlström (tenor) Gabriel Suovanen, Jorma Hynninen (baritone) [ BIS Complete Sibelius Edition / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "Given the artistry and insight of this splendid partnership, and the interest and beauty of the repertoire, this is a self-recommending issue." Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 (on the Anne Sofie von Otter recording) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem], Op. 45 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) & Hans Hotter (baritone) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 2/Jul/2007 ] "The intonation of some members of the Singverein occasionally wavers - there was no heating in the hall and some probably had not seen a decent meal for a week - but Karajan and Legge were endlessly patient" |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms - Symphony No 1 (with works by Beethoven & Strauss) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 27/Oct/2008 ] Karajan's war-time recordings took him to Berlin, Dresden and Turin and, in 1943, to Amsterdam to work with the highly renowned Concertgebouw Orchestra, a great orchestra then as now. This exciting account of Brahms's First Symphony, with its... |
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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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Herbert Von Karajan
Strauss,R.: Till Eulenspiegel [ Testament / CD - released 30/Sep/2005 ] |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / CHERUBINI / DVORAK / MOZART / ROSSINI / SMETANA / RICHARD STRAUSS / etc
Herbert von Karajan: The first recordings 1938-1943 Herbert von Karajan (conductor) with various orchestras [ DG Original Masters / 6 CD - released 20/Jul/2006 ] Karajan's fascinating first essays in the classical repertoire from Mozart (Symphony no. 40) to Richard Strauss (Don Juan), with Beethoven (Symphony no. 7) , Tchaikovsky (Pathétique Symphony), Dvorak (New World Symphony) and a beautiful CD of Opera... |
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JOHANN STRAUSS
Strauss, (J.) - Die Fledermaus (complete opera recorded in 1960) Hilde Gueden, Walter Berry, Erich Kunz, Regina Resnik / Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Herbert von Karajan [ ALTO / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "Hilde Gueden is by no means vocally perfect; but how ravishingly she plays the part! Regina Resnik, too, is convincing in Orlovsky's couplets, Walter Berry is an excellent Falke." (Gramophone) |
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JAKE HEGGIE
Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie Isabel Bayrakdarian / Zheng Gao / Susan Graham / Joyce diDonato / Frederica von Stade / Paul Groves / Keith Phares / etc. [ Avie Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2010 ] "...the composer's own fluent piano-playing, an expert string group and a good if sometimes over-glossy recording provide support for some world-class singers...who are clearly revelling in the opportunities that Heggie has offered them here." BBC... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Octet D.803 / Fünf Menuette mit sechs Trios D. 89 Isabelle Faust (Violin) with Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin), Danusha Waskiewicz (viola), Kristin von der Goltz (cello), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] In response to a commission from Count Troyer, who wanted a work closely modelled on Beethoven's famous Septet op.20, Schubert - despite his fervent admiration for the older composer - resolutely struck out on his own by delivering an . . . Octet.... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B minor Janowitz / Ludwig / Schreier / Berlin Philharmonic / Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 29/Apr/2000 ] "There is a strong sense of the works's architecture, and the highly polished surfaces do not obscure the depths of the music." Penguin Guide |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Missa in C Major 'Coronation' K 317 / Vesperae solennes de confessore K 339 Joan Rodgers, Josef Protschka, Laszlo Polgar, Elisabeth von Magnus / Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] "..Harnoncourt's fascinating exploratory way with the music: he never treats it simply for what it seems to be but looks more deeply into the score to see if he can bring out something fresh" Gramophone |
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JACK HEGGIE
Dead Man Walking (complete opera) Joyce DiDonato, Philip Cutlip, Frederica von Stade / Houston Grand Opera & Chorus, Patrick Summers [ Virgin Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] "If the opera seemed good before, it's rather better now...DiDonato [comes to the vocal lines almost as heightened speech...[and] leaves no question that she'll get a confession out of the killer." (Gramophone) |
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C. P. E. BACH
Bach, CPE: Cello Concertos Julian Steckel (violoncello), Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Susanne von Gutzeit [ Hanssler Classic / CD - released 26/Feb/2016 ] C.P.E. Bach began writing his three cello concertos in 1750, not for his royal employer, but for middle-class musical society in Berlin and Potsdam. The works were later also published in versions for harpsichord and flute. Concertos for the cello... |
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WAGNER
Gotterdammerung (complete opera) [Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival] Jutta Vulpius, Elisabeth Schartel, Maria Graf, Wolfgang Windgassen, Georgine von Milinkovic / Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth [ Testament / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "Windgassen may be more vocally secure for Solti but nowhere else is he so tender, so moving as here. Josef Greindl is a far more saturnine, charismatic Hagen here than elsewhere. But it is Astrid Varnay who is the great revelation." Recording of... |
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W. A. MOZART
Cosi fan Tutte (Complete Opera recorded in 1990) Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Allen, Francisco Araiza / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Decca Classic Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2008 ] "A strikingly light, fresh Così with a truly superb ensemble, idiomatic and characterful; the voices are large, but only Mattila sounds a little weighty." (Five Stars BBC Music) |