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The Most Famous Opera Duets»rank: 3658from: EMI Classics
0ur opinion: :This is a misnomer--not all of these duets are all that famous--but it's a fine compilation nonetheless. You'll hear selections from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers (Nicolai Gedda and Ernest Blanc at their most elegant French), Madama Butterfly (Carlo Bergonzi and Renata Scotto--an impassioned pair), Lucia di Lammermoor (a classy Alfredo Kraus and Edita Gruberova), the lovely Lakme duet, The Presentation of the Silver Rose from Der Rosenkavalier (with the earnest Christa Ludwig and the other-worldly Teresa Stich-Randall), and a fine Trovatore 'Miserere' (with Leontyne Price and Franco ...
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Vaughan Williams: The Nine Symphonies»rank: 8292from: RCA
0ur opinion: :This is a misnomer--not all of these duets are all that famous--but it's a fine compilation nonetheless. You'll hear selections from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers (Nicolai Gedda and Ernest Blanc at their most elegant French), Madama Butterfly (Carlo Bergonzi and Renata Scotto--an impassioned pair), Lucia di Lammermoor (a classy Alfredo Kraus and Edita Gruberova), the lovely Lakme duet, The Presentation of the Silver Rose from Der Rosenkavalier (with the earnest Christa Ludwig and the other-worldly Teresa Stich-Randall), and a fine Trovatore 'Miserere' (with Leontyne Price and Franco ...
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Handel - Messiah / Harper, Watts, Wakefield, Shirley-Quirk, LSO, C. Davis»rank: 4367by: George Frideric Handel, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Colin Davis, Heather Harper, Helen Watts, John Wakefield, John Shirley-Quirk
0ur opinion: essential recording:This 1966 reading from Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony is a classic. A noble, compassionate interpretation, it represents a very successful melding of the English oratorio tradition with the then-emerging notion of an authentic performance style emphasizing lightness of texture and firm rhythmic underpinning. ln its latest incarnation, as a Philips 'Duo' offering (two CDs for the price of one), it's an especially good bargain. --Ted Libbey
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8»rank: 43834from: Decca
0ur opinion: essential recording:This 1966 reading from Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony is a classic. A noble, compassionate interpretation, it represents a very successful melding of the English oratorio tradition with the then-emerging notion of an authentic performance style emphasizing lightness of texture and firm rhythmic underpinning. ln its latest incarnation, as a Philips 'Duo' offering (two CDs for the price of one), it's an especially good bargain. --Ted Libbey
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Mahler - The Symphonies / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti»rank: 40784by: Kiri Te Kanawa, Georg Solti, Gustav Mahler, George Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Isobel Buchanan, Mira Zakai, Arleen Auger, Heather Harper, Yvonne Minton, Lucia Popp, John Shirley-Quirk, Martti Talveala, Helga Dernesch
0ur opinion: :György Solti has come in for his share of hard knocks as a Mahler interpreter, and no one will pretend that he has the same sort of intuitive empathy for this music that Leonard Bernstein has. But he does have the Chicago Symphony 0rchestra--no mean advantage--and many of these performances have come up sounding rather well. London also has been smart to include his first (and better) performance of the Fifth, and he generally does quite well by Symphonies Nos. 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9 as ...
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Britten: Peter Grimes»rank: 20817by: Benjamin Britten, Colin Davis, Jon Vickers, Heather Harper, Covent Garden Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, John Dobson, Richard van Allan, John Lanigan, Anne Pashley, Patricia Payne, Forbes Robinson, Jonathan Summers, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Teresa Cahill
0ur opinion: :György Solti has come in for his share of hard knocks as a Mahler interpreter, and no one will pretend that he has the same sort of intuitive empathy for this music that Leonard Bernstein has. But he does have the Chicago Symphony 0rchestra--no mean advantage--and many of these performances have come up sounding rather well. London also has been smart to include his first (and better) performance of the Fifth, and he generally does quite well by Symphonies Nos. 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9 as ...
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The Best Choral Album in the World...Ever!»rank: 93524from: EMI Classics
0ur opinion: :György Solti has come in for his share of hard knocks as a Mahler interpreter, and no one will pretend that he has the same sort of intuitive empathy for this music that Leonard Bernstein has. But he does have the Chicago Symphony 0rchestra--no mean advantage--and many of these performances have come up sounding rather well. London also has been smart to include his first (and better) performance of the Fifth, and he generally does quite well by Symphonies Nos. 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9 as ...
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100 Best Opera Classics»rank: 31333from: Emd Int'l
0ur opinion: :György Solti has come in for his share of hard knocks as a Mahler interpreter, and no one will pretend that he has the same sort of intuitive empathy for this music that Leonard Bernstein has. But he does have the Chicago Symphony 0rchestra--no mean advantage--and many of these performances have come up sounding rather well. London also has been smart to include his first (and better) performance of the Fifth, and he generally does quite well by Symphonies Nos. 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9 as ...
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Haydn: The Creation; Missa in tempore belli»rank: 35961from: EMI Classics
0ur opinion: :György Solti has come in for his share of hard knocks as a Mahler interpreter, and no one will pretend that he has the same sort of intuitive empathy for this music that Leonard Bernstein has. But he does have the Chicago Symphony 0rchestra--no mean advantage--and many of these performances have come up sounding rather well. London also has been smart to include his first (and better) performance of the Fifth, and he generally does quite well by Symphonies Nos. 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9 as ...
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Handel: Judas Maccabeus»rank: 134249from: Musical Concepts
0ur opinion: :György Solti has come in for his share of hard knocks as a Mahler interpreter, and no one will pretend that he has the same sort of intuitive empathy for this music that Leonard Bernstein has. But he does have the Chicago Symphony 0rchestra--no mean advantage--and many of these performances have come up sounding rather well. London also has been smart to include his first (and better) performance of the Fifth, and he generally does quite well by Symphonies Nos. 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9 as ...
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