Decca's Elektra is a remarkable account of the opera. Recorded in 1968, produced by John Culshaw with an all-star cast, this performance captures the opera's brutality and atmosphere of nearly uninterrupted hysteria. Georg Solti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic, one of the great Strauss orchestras, in a searing reading of the frenzied score. Solti ...
As one of the great comic masterpieces of opera, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro has received many fine recordings over the years. This 1971 recording is complete, including the often omitted arias in Act 4, has few embellishments and has the use of a full modern orchestra. This is not the recording for the purist who desires the latest in ...
Anybody who loves the orchestral music of English composer Edward Elgar -- the brilliant Enigma Variations, the passionate Violin Concerto, the heartrending Cello Concerto, the magnificent symphonies, the spectacular overtures, and the virtuosic Bach and Handel transcriptions -- will sooner or later have to deal with his three sacred oratorios: ...
Due to a wealth of excellent recordings produced in the decades after the Mahler boom of the 1960s, Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are no longer the most highly rated performers of Mahler's symphonies. Their recordings for Decca were valued in their day for their electric energy, clarity, and precision; many were widely praised ...
While Johannes Somary's 1970 Vanguard recording of Handel's Messiah provides an early example of authentic period re-creation -- it is a complete performance of the 1966 Watkins Shaw edition, with pared-down choral and orchestral forces, appropriate ornamentation, and a continuo alternating between harpsichord and organ -- it sounds a little ...
Is this the greatest Tristan ever recorded? No: that would be Furtwängler's 1953 EMI recording. Is this the greatest Tristan by Carlos Kleiber ever recorded? No: that would be his 1982 DG recording. But, after those two, this 1974 Kleiber is arguably the greatest Tristan ever recorded. It has a sometimes terrific, sometimes merely tolerable cast, ...
Recorded between 1972 and 1974 and released in time for Christmas in 1975, Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's stereo cycle of Beethoven's symphonies was a classic in its time and remains so 30 years later in this splendidly remastered 2007 re-release. As was typical of the Solti/Chicago partnership, the performances here are big ...
Opera d'Oro's live recording of Tristan und Isolde from the 1974 Bayreuth Festival has surprisingly good sound -- warm and relatively clean, with fine balance and little background noise. (Two caveats -- at one point during Isolde's first-act monologue, the sound drops out entirely for a split second, and there is a skip in the third act.) The ...
On the surface, this Ring cycle recording -- though a bargain price -- might seem like a poor relation to those by Sir Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, and others, or to the live recordings from the 1950s by the likes of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Clemens Kraus, and Hans Knappertsbusch. The very names constitute big guns in opera, and ...
This is a time-tested recording of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, reissued as part of Philips' reasonably priced Trio series. Over 30 years old at the time of this release, and perhaps not among the best available when it was new, Colin Davis' 1971 performance is still a respectable entry in the catalog of Figaro recordings. Davis deserves a lot of ...
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