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With the Vienna Philharmonic, the great conductor performs music not normally associated with him. Some elicit wonderful results (Gluck, Cherubini, and – with the Philharmonia and Fischer-Dieskau... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Falla: El sombrero de tres picos & other works
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Clara Haskil (piano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Concerts Lamoureux, Ernest Ansermet, Igor Markevitch
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Kathleen Ferrier: Brahms, Mahler, Gluck
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter
The beloved English contralto is heard here in some of the core pieces from her repertory, her unflawed singing a testament to an outstanding artist at her best. — More…
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK), Vàclav Smetacek
Despite inferior sound, Michelangeli dazzles in the opening of Op. 111, is magisterial in the Emperor Concerto, and gives peerless performances of Debussy's Images. — More…
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Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky & Ilya Shpilberg
This is Mravinsky at his peak. The playing of the Leningrad Philharmonic in these three twentieth century works is quite astonishingly good. — More…
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Ravel: Orchestral Works
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux
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A Tribute to Rafael Kubelík
Julia Hamari (soprano), Rose Wagermann (mezzo), David Rendall (tenor), Grace Hoffmann (contralto), Herta Töpper (mezzo) & Inge Borkh (soprano), Herbert Schachtschneider (tenor), Kieth Engen (baritone)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael...
Kubelik was a great Mahlerian, and for specialists his two-part Das klagende Lied is a significant addition to the discography. For others, the off-air recording may be unappealing. — More…
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R. Strauss: Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, Four Last Songs & Tod und Verklärung
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Ackermann
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Igor Markevitch conducts Mussorgsky & Stravinsky
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian State Academic Choir & Russian Symphony Orchestra, Igor Markevitch