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Strauss, R: Elektra
Regina Resnik (Klytämnestra), Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Leonie Rysanek (Chrysothemis), Wolfgang Windgassen (Aegisth), Eberhard Waechter (Orest), Fredrick Guthrie (Der Pfleger der Orest), Margareta Sjöstedt (Vertraute), Margarita Lilova (Schleppträgerin), Gerhard Unger (Junger Diener), Herbert Lackner...
[Nilsson] is achingly tender in the recognition scene with Orestes, vividly obsequious as she lures Aegisthus to his death and tireless in her final, fatal dance...like Nilsson, [Resnik] really... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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Verdi: Arias
Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ewa Podles (contralto), Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukas Borowicz
The Polish tenor's move into a heavier repertoire than hitherto associated with him is amply vindicated in this celebratory CD...he retains the golden quality of his voice as he sizes up. The... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, Opera Choice
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Ludwig Weber (Daland), Astrid Varnay (Senta), Wolfgang Windgassen (Erik), Elisabeth Schärtel (Mary), Josef Traxel (Der Steuermann) & Hermann Uhde (Der Holländer)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, Hans Knappertsbusch
Maestro Knappertsbusch is on the concentrated form of his 1951 Munich Tristan. …all is steely strength, realised through dynamic sensitivity and spacious tempi… Any suspicion that Astrid Varnay…... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedRobert Gambill, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Robert Lloyd & Edith Mathis
ORF Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Peter Schreier
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Building a Library, March 2000, Also Recommended
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A splendid recital from a young soprano who rises with skill and flair to the music's varied challenges. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Dvořák: The King and the Charcoal Burner (Král a Uhlír)
Dalibor Jenis (King Matyáš), Peter Mikuláš (Matěj), Michelle Breedt (Anna), Lívia Aghová (Liduška), Michal Lehotsky (Jenik), Markus Schäfer (Jindřich)
Prague Chamber Choir, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln & WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Gerd Albrecht
Dvorák's delightful The King and the CharcoalBurner was the second opera that he wrote and the first to be staged. In its first form it was abandoned during rehearsal as being too complex and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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Julia Varady sings Wagner
RecommendedJulia Varady (soprano)
Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
This is a truly riveting recital of Wagner from Varady (magnificent singing) and Fischer- Dieskau. Varady's reading of the Wesendonk Lieder is remarkable, enthralling. There's nothing here of... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2017, First Choice
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
RecommendedJessye Norman (Jocaste), Thomas Moser (Oedipus), Alexandru Ionita (Shepherd), Michel Piccoli (narrator)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Colin Davis
The pace is unerringly right, the rhythms never monotonously mechanical, the score's phrasing and accents scrupulously realized...Jocastas notoriously tend to unsteadiness, but Jessye Norman... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
George London (Dutchman), Josef Greindl (Daland), Leonie Rysanek (Senta), Fritz Uhl (Erik), Res Fischer (Mary), Georg Paskuda (Steuermann)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Sawallisch
A blistering mono performance live from Bayreuth. Wolfgang Sawallisch takes no musical prisoners as Leonie Rysanek tears through Senta, all but incinerating George London’s Dutchman. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Piotr Beczala (Gustaf III), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Renato Ankarstrom), Krassimira Stoyanova (Amelia), Nadia Krasteva (Ulrica), Hila Fahima (Oscar), Wiener Staatsoper, Jesús López Cobos
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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