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Ansermet conjures clean-as-a-whistle sonorities from his Suisse Romande orchestra in Pictures at an Exhibition and La Valse; Respighi’s Rossiniana suite charms. — More…
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Benjamin Britten: Choral Works
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Benjamin Britten
Both as conductor or organist George Malclom excels, securing a taut account of the inexplicably sidelined Cantata Academica. On Westminster Cathedral home-ground the Missa brevis radiates authority. — More…
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6; Francesca da Rimini
Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
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Lalo: Symphonie espagnole; Sarasate: Carmen Fantasie; Zigeunerweisen; Saint-Saëns: Havanaise; Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso
Ruggiero Ricci (violin)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, London Symphony Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet, Piero Gamba
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'The playing is immensely alert and undoubtedly stylish and the recording extremely fine.' That review was written in 1966, when the recording came out and, in spite of the authentic-movement... — More…
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Wagner: Die Walküre (Act I) – Excerpts
Set Svanholm (tenor), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Arnold van Mill (bass (vocal))
Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch
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Hans Knappertsbusch conducts Wagner
with Franz Lechleitner
Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch
…the Götterdämmerung excerpts are most beautifully played with an abundant degree of warmth and a moderate degree of savagery where these qualities are called for […] the beauty of sound … is... — More…
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Ida Haendel - The Decca Legacy
Ida Haendel (violin), Adela Kotowska (piano), Noel Mewton-Wood (piano), Ivor Newton (piano), Alice Haendel (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), Ivry Gitlis (violin), Shlomo Mintz (violin)
National Symphony Orchestra, The National Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic...
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Colin Davis - Beethoven Odyssey
Helen Donath (soprano), Trudeliese Schmidt (mezzo-soprano), Klaus Konig (tenor), Simon Estes (bass (vocal)), Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Fritz Kreisler (cadenzor), Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Christiane Eda-Pierre (soprano), Leslie Pearson (organ), Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor),...
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