Testament
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Michelangeli plays Schumann, Chopin, Debussy & Mompou
RecommendedArturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
Readers who are familiar with Michelangeli's 1971 DG recording of Debussy's Images will be astonished at this highly mobile 1957 concert performance of 'Cloches à travers les feuilles', which... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2001, First Choice
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Theo Adam, Anja Silja, Martti Talvela, James King, Kenneth Macdonald & Annelies Burmeister
BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
Thanks to Testament, we now have the Royal Festival Hall performance, as broadcast by the BBC, to put alongside the Abbey Road recording (above – made by EMI at the same period) which might be... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Disc of the Month
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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Alfred Deller (Oberon), Jennifer Vyvyan (Tytania), Leonide Massine II (Puck), Kevin Platts (Cobweb), Robert McCutcheon (Mustardseed), Barry Ferguson (Moth), Michael Bauer (Peaseblossom), George Maran (Lysander), Thomas Hemsley (Demetrius), Marjorie Thomas (Hermia), April Cantelo (Helena), Forbes Robinson...
The cast play as an ensemble with remarkable detail. Alfred Deller, especially, is in excellent voice as Oberon...though the playing is not immaculate, Britten leads his forces with tremendous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Re-issue of the Month
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To my mind, these previously unreleased BBC broadcasts from the late 1950s and early ‘60s contain some of Pears’s most alluring singing on record: highlights include an elegant ‘Hark, hark the... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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The London Baroque Ensemble play Mozart & Dvorak Wind Serenades
RecommendedLondon Baroque Ensemble, Karl Haas
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Building a Library, January 2002, Historic Choice
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Ida Haendel plays Sibelius - Vinyl Edition
RecommendedIda Haendel (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund
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Building A Library, June 2021, Recommended Recording - Violin Concerto
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Otto Klemperer conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker
Wilma Lipp (soprano), Eberhard Wächter (baritone)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Otto Klemperer
Klemperer always declared that the Vienna Philharmonic was his favourite orchestra. On the strength of these performances, most of them recorded on his last visit to the Austrian capital, the... — More…
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto - Vinyl Edition
David Oistrakh (violin), Orchestre National de France, André Cluytens
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The Pro Arte Quartet's first London appearance in 1925 prompted The Times to declare, 'One has never heard it surpassed, and rarely equalled, in volume and beauty of tone, in accuracy of intonation... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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