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Wagner: Die Walküre: Act 1
Nina Stemme (Sieglinde), Johan Botha (Siegmund) & Ain Anger (Hunding)
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Franz Welser-Möst
Botha's technical security and breath control are undeniable...but I find his basic sound constricted and uneven, stronger at the top than in the baritonal reaches...[Stemme] is the main vocal... — More…
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Christmas Songs With Carlo Bergonzi
Carlo Bergonzi
Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Gumpoldskirch Boys Choir, Paul Angerer
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Neil Shicoff Live
Neil Shicoff (tenor), Vladimir Chernov (baritone)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Marcello Viotti, Frédéric Chaslin, Fabio Luisi
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The Munich Roles of Julia Varady
Julia Varady (soprano)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Pinchas Steinberg
the most versatile, committed and technically assured lyric-dramatic soprano of the 20th century’s final quarter. — More…
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Luciano Pavarotti (Gustavo III), Piero Cappuccilli (Renato), Gabriele Lechner (Amelia), Ludmila Semtschuk (Ulrica), Magda Nador (Oscar), Georg Tichy (Cristiano), Franco De Grandis (Horn), Goran Simic (Ribbing), Alexander Maly (A judge) & Franz Kasemann (A servant)
Orchester und Chor der...
[Pavarotti] was on some form this evening, fearless in the high tessitura of the ‘Teco io sto’ duet…the second hero of this performance is Claudo Abbado, who piles on the tension without ever... — More…
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Verdi: Macbeth
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Macbeth), Peter Lagger (Banco), Grace Bumbry (Lady Macbeth), Bozena Ruk-Focic (Dama), Ermanno Lorenzi (Macduff), Francisco Lazaro (Malcolm) & Alois Pernerstorfer (Medico)
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Kammerchor der Salzburger Festspiele & Wiener Philharmoniker,...
Though the title-role brings a gruff weight to Fischer-Dieskau's lower range, his innate vocal refinement is bound to make Macbeth a bit more regal, while his Lieder-influenced readings give... — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Margaret Price (Fiordiligi), Brigitte Fassbaender (Dorabella), Peter Schreier (Ferrando), Wolfgang Brendel (Guglielmo), Reri Grist (Despina), Theo Adam (Don Alfonso)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Staatsoper, Wolfgang Sawallisch
The cast is stellar. Margaret Price's studio Cosi, made seven years earlier, finds her in wonderful form but greatly handicapped by Klemperer's marmoreal tempos. Here, however, she sounds interpretatively... — More…
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Krenek: Orpheus und Eurydike
Ronald Hamilton (Orpheus), Dunja Vejzovic (Eurydice), Celina Lindsley (Psyche), Cornelia Kallisch (First Fury), Gabriele Schreckenbach (Second Fury), Jutta Geister (Third Fury), Hans Franzen (A Drunk), Wilfried Gahmlich (A Sailor) & Bo Skovhus (Fool)
RSO Wien & ORF-Chor, Pinchas Steinberg
The score’s big moments are well in hand under Pinchas Steinberg, though voices and orchestra maintain an aural distance…this recording is a mixed blessing, but without it we might never know... — More…
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Julia Varady (Lisa), Elena Obraztsova (Countess), Vladimir Atlantov (Hermann), Alexander Voroshilo (Tomsky), Bodo Brinkmann (Yeletsky), Ludmila Shemchuk (Pauline), Yoshihisa Yamaji (Chekalinsky), Karl Helm (Surin), Ulrich Reß (Chaplitsky), Alfred Kuhn (Narumov), Friedrich Lenz (Master of Ceremonies),...
[Varady is] in radiant voice here, convincingly youthful and appealing at her first encounter with Herman, throwing caution to the wind as she goes to her death in the Neva. Vladimir Atlantov's... — More…
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