 | Handel - Messiah / Ameling · A. Reynolds · Langridge · Howell · Marriner [Read More ...]
Description: Neville Marriner's 1976 account of the Covent Garden version of the score (1743), with the Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and soloists Elly Ameling, Anna Reynolds, Philip Langridge, and Gwynne Howell, is positively plush-sounding but nicely animated. I'd love to ... |
 | Mahler: The Complete Symphonies [Read More ...]
Description: For many of us, Leonard Bernstein's first Mahler cycle for CBS (compiled here, remastered and cheaper than ever) has stood the test of time since it initially came out on LP in the late 1960s. Upon completing this traversal of nine symphonies (and the "Adagio" movement from the u... |
 | Artistry of Elly Ameling (Coll) [Read More ...]
Review: Elly Ameling now more available :I had a 33 rpm album of Elly Ameling singing Schubert lieder accompanied by piano and clarinet at times. It was one of my all time favorite albums so I have been disappointed that I have not been able to find it anywhere on CD.
Now I can just bu... |
 | Handel: Messiah [Read More ...]
Description: A heavy, ponderous, and generally unappetizing performance, the fault for which lies not so much with Karl Richter, but with the slack playing of the London Philharmonic and the less than enthusiastic singing of the John Alldis Choir. It's strange to think how much better this mi... |
 | Ultimate Wagner: The Essential Masterpieces [Read More ...]
With selections and scenes from Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Parsifal. Performances by Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Waltraud Meier, Wolfgang Windgassen, Peter Hofmann, Theo Adam, Matti Salminen with Georg Solti, James Levine and others. |
 | Bruckner: Masses #2 & 3, Te Deum, 5 Motets [Read More ...]
Review: Massive Music:I had Te Deum originally on audio cassette, and played it until it was worn. I am so thrilled that this beautiful and moving piece is now on CD. The quality of soloists is fabulous and the chorus is strong. The string entrance to Te Deum always gives me the chill... |
 | Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Kindertotenlieder [Read More ...]
Review: The Difference and An Historical Trivia Note:This is a superb younger Lenny performance that remains unequaled in many ways. While the Solti is operatic in nature, Lenny's performance is much closer to what Mahler imagined as a "Symphony of a Thousand." It evokes much more of the... |
 | Wagner: Das Rheingold [Read More ...]
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 | Handel: Messiah (Highlights) [Read More ...]
Review: one of the best!:Originally written for my school paper and my review blog...check my profile if you are interested.
Note that this was for the complete set, not just the highlights. But this highlights disc is what made me find the complete recording!
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One of the most honor... |
 | Bach: Cantatas Volumes 1-5 (75 Cantatas for Sundays and Feast Days of the Church Year) [Read More ...]
Description: As One of the Most Legendary Champions of Bach Karl Richter's Many (And in Some Instances Multiple) Recordings of the Composers Cantata's Arguably is his Greatest Achievement. Richter Enlisted Many of the Finest Vocalists in their Prime During the 1950's Through the Early 70's fo... |
 | Verdi: La Traviata [Read More ...]
Review: Anna Moffo Lives La Traviata:ABOUT THE ALBUM: Verdi (La Traviata) Original 2 LP set Released In 1960 By RCA Victor Living Stereo; remastered as CD 1993 and 1997 with high resolution/stereo-orthophonic UV22 20 bit resolution. CAST: Anna Moffo, soprano (Violetta), Richard Tucker, t... |
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 | Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin [Read More ...]
Description: After you have heard Hvorostovsky or Thomas Allen, Bernhard Weikl may sound a bit stiff and heavy in the role of the disillusioned, bored young Onegin, who rejects Tatiana's impulsive offer of love and lives to regret it. But Teresa Kubiak's warm, expressive voice and her comman... |
 | Beethoven: Symphonies 6, 8 & 9; Carlo Maria Giulini; London Symphony Orchestra [Read More ...]
Review: Superb Value:I hadn't heard Carlo Maria Giulini's collaboration with the New Philharmonia of Beethoven's Symphony 9 before. But I was well acquainted with Giulini/NPO's treatment of the Pastoral Symphony, having owned this on LP for so many years.
When I first heard this 6th, I ... |
 | Mozart: Die Zauberflöte / Janowitz, Gedda, Popp, Berry, Frick, Schwarzkopf, Ludwig; Klemperer [Read More ...]
Review: Do you like Mozart in the Romantic style?:There are a number of very good recordings of The Magic Flute. If you are not bothered by the missing dialog (after many years with this opera, I find myself impatient to get back to the music after two or three lines of the rather silly... |
 | Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 6 - 9 [Read More ...]
Poetic Kempe Pastoral:The #6 is light and poetic, pastoral in the best sense, an interpretation different to those of other conductors. You can easily tell just by listening to the extracts supplied here at Amazon. (Usually I love Giulini, however IMHO his 9 here does not show him at his best)
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 | Wagner: Götterdämmerung [Read More ...]
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 | Highlights from Der Ring des Nibelungen [Read More ...]
Review: Ravishing aperitif...I want more!:I can think of a few dozen reasons for not wanting to buy the complete Karajan Ring, the high price being the first of them. I already have Solti's, Krauss', Levine's (the superior DVD version), and Boehm's; also "bleeding chunks" of Solti's 1983... |
 | Handel: Messiah (Highlights) [Read More ...]
Review: One of the best!:Originally written for my school paper and my review blog...check my profile if you are interested.
Note that this was for the complete set, not just the highlights. But this highlights disc is what made me find the complete recording!
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One of the most hono... |
 | Verdi: Luisa Miller [Read More ...]
Review: Two of the Stars are Pavarotti and Caballe:Going in I was thinking this is second tier Verdi, and not in the same league with Rigoletto and La Traviata. Not so. The music's action is fast and furious, typically Verdi, and the singing of Pavarotti and Caballe are without blemish. ... |
