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Historic recordings.
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'
RecommendedBayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber
If you are a connoisseur of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony...then this reissue is imperative. There is a caveat: the recording has been saved from an audio cassette version, the original master... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2011, First Choice
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Verdi: Macbeth
RecommendedSherrill Milnes (Macbeth), Christa Ludwig (Lady Macbeth), Karl Ridderbusch (Banquo), Carlo Cossutta (Macduff), Gildis Flossman (Dama) & Ewald Aichberger (Malcolm)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
Lady Macbeth has rarely seemed more of a Lady than in Ludwig’s hands on this live 1970 recording from Vienna – her arch-manipulator is regal, elegant and icily pragmatic right up until the final... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
Werner Hollweg (Tito), Carol Neblett (Vitellia), Catherine Malfitano (Servilia), Tatiana Troyanos (Sesto), Anne Howells (Annio), Kurt Rydl (Publio)
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper & Wiener Philharmoniker, James Levine
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Brigitte Fassbaender (Octavian), Claire Watson (Marschallin), Karl Ridderbusch (Ochs), Lucia Popp (Sophie), Benno Kusche (Faninal), Annelie Waas (Marianne), David Thaw (Valzacchi), Margarethe Bence (Annina) & Gerhard Unger (Italian singer)
Bavarian State Opera, Carlos Kleiber
This performance from 1973 is notable for its extraordinary textural clarity, in this densest of scores, and its rhythmic vitality. The vocal hero of the occasion is Brigitte Fassbaender as... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Live)
Robert Kerns (baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano), Jon Vickers (tenor), Anton Diakov (bass), Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano), Olivera Miljaković (soprano), Júlia Hamari (mezzo-soprano), Justino Díaz (bass-baritone), John van Kesteren (baritone), Milen Paunov (tenor)
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper,...
There’s some extremely potent singing from three of the leads (Bumbry, Vickers and Freni’s Micaëla), not least from Bumbry with a subtle range of dynamics that truly suggest both the almost... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2012, Also Recommended
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Irmgard Seefried
Vienna 1943-1952
Irmgard Seefried (soprano) with Leopold Ludwig, Viktor Graef & Erik Werba (piano)
A lovely collection: if you had to choose a single disc to represent Seefried in song you could not do better than this...Her personal warmth permeates the voice, and in these recordings one... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedKathleen Battle (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo)
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine
Levine's 1989 Salzburg account would seem to have been fashioned with the delicate sensibilities of the glamorous festival audience in mind. It's a reading which dutifully pushes most of the... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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