Browse: Testament (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label Testament.
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The Hollywood String Quartet play Schoenberg and Schubert
RecommendedAlvin Dinkin, Kurt Reher
The Hollywood String Quartet
This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill and... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2007, Historic Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, October 2006, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Berg: Violin Concerto & Lyric Suite
RecommendedLouis Krasner, Galimir String Quartet
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Anton Webern
The strong emotions that soloist and conductor doubtless felt within six months of the composer's death ensure that there is more than enough raw and authentic feeling to counter any purely technical... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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Building a Library, October 2004, Historic Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Building a Library, November 2011, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Historic Reissue
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
RecommendedAase Nordmo-Løvberg, Christa Ludwig, Waldemar Kmentt, Hans Hotter
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
…Otto Klemperer's energy and momentum come not from his tempos but from the way the rhythms are articulated. In the first movement and Scherzo the heroic, teeth-gritted determination are physically... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st February 2010
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Building a Library, December 2009, First Choice
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedDas Rheingold Hans Hotter (Wotan), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Georgine von Milinkovič (Fricka), Rudolf Lustig (Loge), Paul Kuen (Mime), Ludwig Weber (Fasolt), Josef Greindl (Fafner), Josef Traxel (Froh), Hertha Wilfert (Freia), Jutta Vulpius (Woglinde), Elisabeth Schärtel (Wellgunde),...
[Keilberth] is urgent and passionate, and the thrust of the performance makes the result intensely exciting, inspiring the great Wagnerian singers in the cast to give of their finest...here... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st February 2010
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Building a Library, January 2008, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts Strauss & Wagner
RecommendedKirsten Flagstad
Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
The world premiere of Four Last Songs in its best transfer ever, plus some previously unissued Wagner from the same concert. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th March 2007
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Rostropovich & Britten
RecommendedRecorded live at the 1961 Aldeburgh Music Festival - Previously unpublished
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) & Benjamin Britten (piano), Peter Pears (tenor)
this Testament release of Rostropovich in his debut at the Aldeburgh Festival catches the cellist somewhere near his early and all-conquering best — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th April 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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