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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedWillard White (Porgy), Cynthia Haymon (Bess), Gregg Baker (Crown), Harolyn Blackwell (Clara), Cynthia Clarey (Serena), Marietta Simpson (Maria), Damon Evans (Sportin' Life), Bruce Hubbard (Jake)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
In an ideal world, operatic recordings would always evolve in this way...We've a real sense here of Gershwin's community, a feeling of oneness with the piece from singers who've not only lived... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Opera
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Building a Library, April 2019, Also Recommended
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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Leroy Anderson - Orchestral Works Volume 3
RecommendedAlasdair Malloy (solo typewriter) & Catherine Moore (solo trumpet)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
This volume has its quota of favourites – Plink,Plank, Plunk!, Sandpaper Ballet, Sleigh Ride, TheTypewriter and The Syncopated Clock among them, though there are also several pieces never before... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2011, Featured
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus RecommendedHilde Güden (Rosalinde), Eberhard Wächter (Eisenstein), Giuseppe Zampieri (Alfred), Rita Streich (Adele), Gerhard Stolze (Orlofsky), Peter Klein (Blind), Walter Berry (Falke), Erich Kunz (Frank), Josef Meinrad (Frosch), Elfriede Ott (Ida)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert...
The most luxuriantly Viennese of all Fledermice, with Karajan and the Philharmonic at their most effervescent and a delectable Staatsoper cast, plus a gala of 1950s Decca stars including Björling,... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2022, Also Recommended
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Portraits: The Clarinet Album
RecommendedAndreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
Rotterdam Philharmonic, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
a clarinettist of notable suavity...a superior debut disc that, more than displaying the instrument’s scope, proposes it as a stylistic kaleidoscope. — More…
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Bess), William Warfield (Porgy), Cab Calloway (Sporting Life), John McCurry (Crown)
Eva Jessye Choir, Rias-Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
…this remarkable Porgy and Bess. It was made during the Berlin run of the famous 1952-3 European tour… of a production by Robert Breen, with an all-black company under the work's original conductor... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, April 2019, Also Recommended
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedDonnie Ray Albert (Porgy), Clamma Dale (Bess), Wilma Shakesnider (Serena), Carol Brice (Maria), Andrew Smith (Crown), Alexander B. Smalls (Jake), Betty Lane (Clara), Larry Marchsall (Sportin' Life)
Houston Grand Opera Orchcestra & Chorus, John Demain
a distinctive and colourful performance of a masterly and moving opera — More…
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Building a Library, April 2019, Recommended Recording
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