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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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Ned Rorem - Songs and Cycles
Laura Aikin (soprano), Nicola Jurgensen (clarinet), Gerhard Zank (cello), Donald Sulzen (piano)
Interest continues in Ned Rorem's vocal music – more than 300 solo songs and numerous songcycles.
There's little duplication between Laura Aikin's recital and those of Susan Graham and Carole... — More…CD
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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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Daniel Müller-Schott plays Cello Concertos
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)
NDR Sinfonieorchester, Christoph Eschenbach
…really fine performance of Volkmann's Cello Concerto, a virtuoso showpiece in the grand manner, condensed into a fluid single movement form. Daniel Müller-Schott is a characterful advocate... — More…
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Strauss - Ein Heldenleben & Der Rosenkavalier Suite
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
The music… the Rosenkavalier Suite has never worked better to my ears, the Presentation of the Rose taken at a studied tempo few singers would appreciate, yet touched with the most delicate... — More…
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Auber: Le Maçon (Maurer und Schlosser)
Walter Anton Dotzer (Roger), Franz Fuchs (Baptiste), Herakles Politis (Leon de Merinville), Peter Lagger (Usbeck), Erich Kuchar (Rica), Hilde Rychling (Irma), Maria Salten (Henriette), Hildegaard Rossl-Majdan (Mme Bertrand), Jenny Colon (Zobeide)
Tonkunstler-Orchester Niederosterreich, Kurt...
The main singers fit the genre well. The supporting cast members are also good enough The orchestra plays very well under the guidance of Kurt Tenner, who whisks things along and seems to have... — 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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