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Bruno Walter’s Mahler: The Early New York Recordings
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Westminster Choir, Bruno Walter
Rhetoric and searing drama charge the first movement with unprecedented levels of intensity...As to the closing minutes, no performance in my experience quite equals them for a sense of unbridled... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Elisabeth Hongen (contralto), Tilla Briem (soprano), Peter Anders (tenor), Rudolf Watzke (bass)
Bruno Kittel Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwangler
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Verdi: Requiem Mass & Te Deum
Zinka Milanov (soprano), Bruna Castagna (mezzo), Jussi Björling (tenor), Nicola Moscona (bass)
NBC Symphony & Westminster Choir, Arturo Toscanini
For a conductor famous for incandescence and relentless intensity, this account of the Requiem, from a Carnegie Hall concert of November 23, 1940, is most remarkable for its lyrical beauty and... — More…
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Furtwängler conducts Beethoven
The Best of the World War II Legacy
Tilla Briem (soprano), Elisabeth Höngen (contralto), Peter Anders (tenor), Rudolf Watzke (bass)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Philharmonic Choir, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Recording quality from Berlin and Vienna varies, but there are rewards, if not always comfortable ones: the finale of the Fifth is more desperate than triumphant, and the finale of the Ninth... — More…
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elsa Cavelti, Ernst Häfliger & Otto Edelmann
Lucerne Festival Choir & Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
His last performance of Beethoven's Ninth, in August 1954, has legendary status, but though precise it seems to me inferior in tension and exultation to those from Berlin in 1942 and Bayreuth... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis & Choral Fantasia
Zinka Milanov (soprano), Bruna Castagna (mezzo), Jussi Björling (tenor), Alexander Kipnis (bass), Ania Dorfman (piano)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis and Symphony No. 5
Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Lisa Tunnel (contralto), Gösta Bäckelin (tenor), Sigurd Björling (bass)
Stockholm PO & Chorus
Stockholm, Konzerthuset, Köln RSO, Erich Kleiber
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Toscanini conducts Berlioz
1939/45 broadcasts, digitally refurbished in 2003
William Primrose (viola)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
For anyone interested in Berlioz or Toscanini, this is a release to cherish — More…
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