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Presto CD - 50 new Deutsche Grammophon titles
Highlights from this week's predominantly orchestral batch include Giuseppe Sinopoli's Bruckner with the Staatskapelle Dresden, Bernstein conducting Copland and Brahms, and two discs of Karl Richter in Bach. There's also the chance to catch several great singers in repertoire outside their usual territory, such as Ben Heppner in Tosti, Bryn Terfel in Rodgers & Hammerstein, and Agnes Baltsa singing songs from her native Greece.
There are several rarities on the contemporary music front, too, including the late Gunther Schuller's Spectra, Milton Babbitt's Correspondences, Sinopoli's Lou Salomé Suites and music by Bakshi, Dunayevsky and Pelecis from Kremerata Baltica.
You can view all available Presto CDs (now numbering well over 1000 titles!) here.
The Ascension Oratorio BWV11 and Cantatas BWV67 and BWV80, sung by Edith Mathis, Trudeliese Schmidt, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & others directed by Karl Richter.
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Arias and choruses from The Christmas Oratorio directed by Karl Richter, with Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich and Franz Crass.
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String Quartets Nos. 14 & 16 arranged for string orchestra, played by the Vienna Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.
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Played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Carlo Maria Giulini.
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Including the Academic Festival Overture, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.
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Including the St Anthony Variations and performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under Carlo Maria Giulini.
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Gidon Kremer joins the Vienna Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.
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Performed by Staatskapelle Dresden under Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Performed by Staatskapelle Dresden under Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Performed by Staatskapelle Dresden under Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.
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Performed by Staatskapelle Dresden under Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Including Carter’s Variations for Orchestra and Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under James Levine.
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Including Quiet City, performed by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.
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The overtures to many of Handel’s oratorios are performed here by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with Hedwig Bilgram on harpsichord.
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Haydn Symphonies 48 & 49 are performed by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
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Also including Grainger’s The Warriors and performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra under John Eliot Gardiner, with the Women’s Voices of the Monteverdi Choir.
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Including Busoni’s Sarabande and Cortège and performed by Staatskapelle Dresden and the Dresden State Opera Chorus under Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Including the symphonic poems Les Préludes, Orpheus and Mazeppa, and the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Featuring Jessye Norman and Siegfried Jerusalem with the Berlin Philharmonic and James Levine.
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Contralto Iris Vermillion and tenor Keith Lewis join the Staatskapelle Dresden under Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Lucia Popp and Andreas Schmidt join Leonard Bernstein and the Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam.
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Performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra under Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Including the Concerto for 7 wind instruments and Polyptique, performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Thierry Fischer, with Marieke Blankestijn as the violin soloist.
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Performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Järvi.
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Highlights from the 1964 recording by Karl Böhm and the Berlin Philharmonic, with Fritz Wunderlich as Tamino, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Papageno and Roberta Peters as the Queen of the Night.
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Karl Böhm with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic, with Horst Eichler on posthorn and James Galway on flute.
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Friedrich Gulda joins Claudio Abbado and the Vienna Philharmonic for Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 25 & 27.
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Performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under Karl Böhm.
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Performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.
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Salvatore Accardo joins Charles Dutoit and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Salvatore Accardo joins Charles Dutoit and the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Paganini’s Fifth Violin Concerto, along with La Primavera and the Maestosa Sonata Sentimentale.
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra perform Bizet’s Symphony in C, Britten’s Simple Symphony and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’.
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Highlights from the 1987 recording by Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Philharmonia Orchestra, starring Mirella Freni as Cio-Cio-San and José Carreras as Pinkerton with Juan Pons, Teresa Berganza and the Ambrosian Opera Chorus.
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Highlights from the 1981 recording by Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic, with Katia Ricciarelli as Turandot and Plácido Domingo as Calaf, and the Vienna Sängerknaben and the State Opera Chorus.
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Including The Isle of the Dead and performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel.
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Performed by the Berlin Philharmonic under James Levine.
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Lucia Popp joins Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart.
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Performed by Staatskapelle Dresden under Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Performed by the English Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus, joined by soloists including Martha Argerich, Kristian Zimerman, Anny Mory, John Mitchinson and many others.
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Performed by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.
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Famous orchestral excerpts from Wagner’s operas, including the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, performed by the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra and James Levine.
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Including Der Freischütz Overture and the 'Dance of the Seven Veils' from Salome, performed by Staatskapelle Dresden under Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Including favourites such as 'O What a Beautiful Morning' and 'You’ll Never Walk Alone', performed by Bryn Terfel with the Chorus of Opera North and the English Northern Philharmonia under Paul Daniel.
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Ben Heppner and the London Symphony Orchestra perform songs by Francesco Paolo Tosti.
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Agnes Baltsa joins Stavros Xarthos and the Athens Experimental Orchestra to sing Greek songs.
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A collection of contemporary music from various composers, performed by Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica.
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra perform contemporary works by Lerdahl, Druckman, Bolcom and Gandolfi.
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Maurice André is joined by artists including Hedwig Bilgram, Charles Mackerras and the Münchener Bach-Orchester for concertos by Handel, the two Haydns, Telemann and Vivaldi.
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