Penguin Rosettes, Classical (era)
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
RecommendedRené Pape (Sarastro), Erika Miklósa (Königin der Nacht), Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina), Christoph Strehl (Tamino), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Papageno), Julia Kleiter (Papagena), Georg Zeppenfeld (Sprecher), Kurt Azesberger (Monostatos), Caroline Stein (Erste Dame), Heidi Zehnder (Zweite Dame), Anne-Carolyn...
This is certainly the most desirable version using modern instruments to appear since Solti's second recording in 1990. That said, its characteristics are rather nearer William Christie's 1995... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2006, Disc of the month
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (La Marquise de Birkenfeld), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortensius), Dawn French (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bruno Campanella
Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's opéra comique was one of the highlights of the Royal Opera's 2006-7 season, and viewing this well-produced DVD of the show it's perfectly obvious why.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - DVD
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, DVD Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, DVD of the Year
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French Coloratura Arias RecommendedSumi Jo (soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
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Treasures of Baroque Opera
RecommendedJanet Baker, Teresa Berganza, Catherine Bott, Luciano Pavarotti
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 RecommendedDella Casa, Danco, Siepi
Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Josef Krips
Freshly remastered, it sounds better than ever...Its intense, dramatic account of the Don's disappearance into hell has rarely been equalled and never surpassed on CD...As a bass Don, Siepi... — More…
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Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio
RecommendedMattiwilda Dobbs (Constanza), Nicolai Gedda (Belmonte), Jenifer Eddy (Blonda), John Fryatt (Pedrillo), Noel Mangin (Osmin), David Kelsey (Pasha Selim)
Ambrosian Singers, The Bath Festival Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin
Menuhin's set of The Abduction from the Seraglio in English makes the performance sparkle from first to last, favouring brisk, well-lifted Allegros, so that the fun of the piece comes over vividly...[the... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
RecommendedDietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Maria Stader, Rita Streich, Kim Borg
Berlin RIAS Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay
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Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
RecommendedDiana Montague, John Aler, Chesney Allen
Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
The Monteverdi Choir is on blistering form, and there's some stylish playing from the modern instruments of Lyon Opera. Thomas Allen brings extraordinary dignity to Orestes. — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
RecommendedSena Jurinac (Leonore), Jon Vickers (Florestan), Gottlob Frick (Rocco), Hans Hotter (Pizarro), Elsie Morison (Marzelline), John Dobson (Jaquino), Forbes Robinson (Fernando), Joseph Ward (First Prisoner), Victor Godfrey (Second Prisoner)
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Klemperer
Here is the first night of Otto Klemperer's legendary 1961 Fidelio, from the Royal Opera House, to challenge his noted studio set from a year later.This confirms the Achilles' heel of Walter... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
2 CDs
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