SACD, Praga (label)
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With the Vienna Philharmonic, the great conductor performs music not normally associated with him. Some elicit wonderful results (Gluck, Cherubini, and – with the Philharmonia and Fischer-Dieskau... — More…
Awards:
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Reicha: Octet in E flat major & Quintet for horn & strings
Vladimira Klanska (horn) & Pavel Langpaul (bassoon)
Czech Nonet
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Kathleen Ferrier: Brahms, Mahler, Gluck
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter
The beloved English contralto is heard here in some of the core pieces from her repertory, her unflawed singing a testament to an outstanding artist at her best. — More…
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Dinu Lipatti: The definitive programme
Dinu Lipatti (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra & Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
This collection includes two concertos, his 1948 studio Schumann (brilliant, though not ideally balanced, with timpani far too distant) and a fine Mozart K467, live from the 1950 Lucerne Festival. — More…
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Mozart: Last Masonic Works
Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, New York Philharmonic, The Westminster Choir, Peter Maag, Bruno Walter
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Here, it is the Fourth, in a performance of astonishing brilliance and grandeur, but also of darkness, of Shostakovich-like grimness and even, in the tone and attack of the woodwind, grotesqueness.... — More…
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Mravinsky in Prague
Prague Live recording 3/6/1955 Smetana Hall
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky
Live radio recordings, in an erratically balanced mono, of a legendary team of orchestra and conductor: spick-and-span Beethoven and blisteringly thrilling Shostakovich. — More…
