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Decca Eloquence 5 plus Rossini and Xenakis
[…] Johannes Brahms The Four Symphonies Haydn Variations Academic Festival Overture Tragic Overture Cleveland Orchestra Lorin Maazel download Robert Schumann Carnaval Kreisleriana Fantasie Allegro Romance Novelette Alicia de Larrocha download Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 Symphonic Dances Alicia de Larrocha Charles Dutoit download Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night´s Dream Pierre Monteux download Richard Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer Josef Metternich Annelies Kupper Wolfgang Windgassen Ferenc Fricsay download Sergei Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7 Russian Overture Lieutenant Kijé The Love for Three Oranges Jean Martinon Sir Adrian Boult download Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 7 Edward Elgar Enigma Variations London Symphony Orchestra Pierre Monteux download A. Vivaldi The Four Seasons J. S. Bach Concerto for Two Violins W. A. Mozart Itzhak Perlman […]
2019-10-12 00:10:00
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde - Nilsson-Vickers
[…] material as a great opera performance should but rarely does. For me to give any opera recording five stars, no less a live performance from 1971, is altogether phenomenal. It's worth any price." www-amazon.com - Daniel Mitrano . December 3, 1999 "I really cannot understand all the recent hoopla over Eaglen and Heppner in TRISTAN! Anyone who knows anything about the opera and has heard recordings such as this one (or Nilsson & Windgassen under Bohm on DG) - to say nothing of the old Met broadcasts - will recognize this for the "real thing" rather than a tenuous and uninteresting sight-reading by comparison. Nilsson and Vickers get into the roles and create something truly magic and spellbinding. Stein may not be Furtwangler but he leads a flowing performance with authority and strength. The supporting cast is first-rate. Grab it before it disappears (which the good stuff seems […]
2019-01-17 00:00:00
Der Ring des Nibelungen - Furtwängler 1953 - Pristine remastering
Richard Wagner DER RING DES NIBELUNGENMartha Mödl, Ludwig Suthaus, Ferdinand FrantzWolfgang Windgassen, Gustav Niedlinger, Elisabeth GrümmerSena Jurinac, Julius Patzak, Gotlieb Frick, Josef GreidelRome Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of RAI dir : Wilhelm FurtwänglerPristine Classical remastering [P] 2011 Recorded Rome 1953 FLAC digital download files, scans, scoresFanfare Review One of Furtwängler’s important skills that is often undervalued because of the cramped quality of many of his recordings is his ear for orchestral color, and Pristine’s transfer allows us to experience that more fully than ever before In the previous issue of Fanfare I reviewed the RAI Das Rheingold and Die Walküre from Pristine, and I noted that I have written extensively about the two Furtwängler Ring cycles in previous issues (20:2, 29:6, and 33:1). I said in that review that there are […]
2018-07-09 06:34:26
As hard as it is to believe that there are more vintage recordings of Tristan coming to light, it’s even harder to believe that anyone would need a review of one. But I played this when I got it: getting the chance to hear Nilsson and Windgassen when they were young–she 40 and he 44–rather […]
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