Decca - Hi-Res Downloads at MP3 Prices
Until 12th June we are offering all Decca downloads at MP3 prices.
Please note that this offer excludes new releases from 2024, and MP3 prices are not discounted.
Decca - Hi-Res Downloads at MP3 Prices, Heather Harper (soprano)
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' RecommendedHeather Harper, Lucia Popp, Arleen Auger (sopranos), Yvonne Minton (mezzo), Helen Watts (contralto), Rene Kollo (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Martti Talvela (bass)
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Singverein, Wiener Sängerknaben & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Now at last Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand can be heard on record at something approaching its full, expansive stature. Here is a version from Solti which ... conveys the feeling of a great... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Grammy Awards, 15th Awards (1972), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 15th Awards (1972), Classical Album of the Year
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 RecommendedSung in English
Peter Pears (Evangelist), Heather Harper (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor), Gwynne Howell (Jesus), John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
Britten characteristically refuses to follow any set tradition, whether Baroque, Victorian or whatever, and, with greater extremes of tempo than is common (often strikingly fast), the result... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z630, etc. RecommendedApril Cantelo (soprano), Wilfred Brown/Robert Tear/Iam Partridge (tenors), Christopher Keyte (bass), Elsie Morison/Heather Harper/Mary Thomas (sopranos), John Whitworth (countertenor), David Galliver/Wilfred Brown (tenors), John Cameron (baritone), Hervey Alan/Trevor Anthony (basses)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Britten: Peter Grimes RecommendedJon Vickers (Grimes), Heather Harper (Ellen), Jonathan Summers (Balstrode), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Auntie), Forbes Robinson (Swallow), Patricia Payne (Mrs Sedley), Thomas Allen (Ned Keene), Richard Van Allan (Hobson)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis
the cast is fine and the tension cumulative — More…
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Grammy Awards, 22nd Awards (1979), Best Opera Recording
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The Tippett Collection RecommendedTippett produced works in all the important forms: sonata, symphony, concerto and opera. This set brings together those instrumental and orchestral recordings made for Decca and Philips
Paul Crossley (piano), György Pauk (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Ralph Kirschbaum (cello), Heather Harper (soprano), Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Barry Tuckwell Horn Quartet & Lindsay String Quartet
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera...
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Building a Library, May 2008, First Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' Heather Harper (soprano) & Helen Watts (contralto)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Georg Solti
... the new Decca stereo recording has special points of excellence all its own. The most striking thing in the whole performance, for me, is the first movement, in which Solti penetrates to... — More…
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The World of Henry Purcell Dame Janet Baker (soprano), The St. Anthony Singers, Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spur (piano), Heather Harper (soprano), Alfred Deller (countertenor), John Whitworth (countertenor), Hervey Alan (bass), Trevor Anthony (bass), Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Bowman (countertenor),...
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Mahler: Symphonies 1-9 RecommendedIsobel Buchanan (soprano - No. 2), Mira Zakai (mezzo - No. 2), Helga Dernesch (mezzo - No. 3), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano - No. 4), Arleen Auger, Heather Harper, Lucia Popp (sopranos - No. 8), Yvonne Minton (mezzos - No. 8), Rene Kollo (tenor - No. 8), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone - No. 8), Martti Talvela...
Solti's achievement in Mahler has been consistent and impressive, and this reissue is a formidable bargain that will be hard to beat...Solti draws stunning playing from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 15th Awards (1972), Best Orchestral Performance
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, and Phaedra Janet Baker (Lucretia), Peter Pears (Male Chorus), Heather Harper (Female Chorus), Benjamin Luxon (Tarquinius), Bryan Drake (Junius), John Shirley-Quirk (Collatinus), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Bianca), Jenny Hill (Lucia)
English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford
two outstanding performances by Dame Janet Baker, recorded at the peak of her career...Luxon makes the selfish Tarquinius into a living character...The seductive beauty of the writing - Britten... — More…
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Mahler: The Symphonies & Song Cycles Janet Baker (mezzo), James King (tenor), Heather Harper (soprano), Norma Procter (contralto), Werner Hollweg (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Jessye Norman (soprano), Hermann Prey (bass-baritone)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
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