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Bach: Matthus-Passion / Wilhelm Furtwngler (Mono 1954 recording)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Otto Edelmann, ...
Angel Records, 2001
Bring back the passion
+ Sublime
+ Depth and Tragedy
+ For personal reasons...
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Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 'Choral' / Furtwängler, Schwarzkopf, Höngen, Hopf, Edelmann (Great Recordings of ...
Ludwig van Beethoven, Wilhelm Furtwangler, ...
EMI Classics, 1999
EMI Sound Clearly Better
+ A true legend
Upon reading that the EMI version of Furtwangler's Bayreuth Beethoven 9th was not entirely the actual live audience performance, I bought the Orfeo offering of the actual performance. I here compare the two discs only in terms of the sound quality. The EMI sound has previously been judged by ...
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Mozart: "Le Nozze di Figaro" / 1937 Salzburg Festival / Pinza, Rhéthy, Stabile, Novotná, Vienna Phil., Walter
Bruno Walter, Mariano Stabile , Aulikki Rautawaara , Esther Rhéthy , Jarmila Novotná , William Wernigk , Virgilio Lazzari , Angelica Cravcenco , Viktor Madin , Dora Komraek , Giuseppe Nessi Ezio Pinza, ...
Andante, 2002
pinza and walter: what a marriage
+ De Luxe Historical Package
René Jacobs and the early music experts benefit from scholarship concerning cadenzas and instrumentation. Virtually ALL of the other recordings have infinitely better sound. Nonetheless, this is the definitive recording of "Le Nozze di Figaro."
Why? Walter auditioned and hand picked all of ...
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Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise / van Dam, Upshaw, Nagano
Olivier Messiaen, Kent Nagano, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 1999
Ravishing Music
+ What's going on in Messiaen's "St. Francis"
+ Collosal Opera!
+ An Absolute Apotheosis
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Lalo Symphonie Espagnole
Ludwig van Beethoven, Edouard Lalo, ...
Apr UK, 1996
one of huberman's best discs
This Appian release absolutely deserves its money. The cheaper Magic Talent presents an inferior sound for the same Beethoven. For Huberman's admirers, I believe that they should hear also the new Arbiter release of an ulterior Beethoven Concerto, live 1944. For the splendid Lalo -- Spanish ...
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Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Jian Wang, Olivier Messiaen, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 2001
The best I know.
+ Deeply Moving Account!
+ Definitive Performance
+ A Treasure among 20th Century Works
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Wilhelm Furtwängler: Live Recordings 1944-1953
Ludwig van Beethoven
Deutsche Grammophon, 2003
One of DG's best Furtwangler compilations
+ A representative introduction to Furtwängler's art
The reviewer above has done a very good job summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of this colleciton. Furtwangler was at his most inspired in concert, and fanciers go out of their way to seek out duplications of his work just to hear what the great man was thinking and feeling on a given day. ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Gustav Mahler, John Barbirolli, ...
EMI Classics, 1999
A RECORDING TO TREASURE
+ Heartfelt and Powerful
+ Very Passionate
+ A transcendental milestone and treasured readings of this enigmatic work!
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Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus
Olivier Messiaen, Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Teldec, 2000
Indescribably Beautiful
+ Beautiful and inventive, though it can seem overlong
+ A brilliant take on some difficult music
+ An indescribable accomplishment
+ This is amazing, otherworldly music
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Beethoven: Soantas Nos. 29 "Hammerklavier" & 3; Bagatelles Op. 126
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sviatoslav Richter
BBC Legends, 2000
A Stupendous Hammerklavier
+ brilliant but...
+ WHEN ICONS COLLIDE
+ Richter at his best
+ Another important release!
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Erich Kleiber, ...
Decca, 1999
Beautiful singing from the entire cast throughout, some at unsurpassed level.
+ Quite nice
+ My First Opera Recording Still Holds Up
+ Great Performance, worth buying
+ Kleiber is the prize of the set
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Puccini: Tosca
Giacomo Puccini, Herbert von Karajan, ...
Decca, 1997
Price great good Tosca
+ This Tosca Takes The Crown
+ Agree! Remastered version is better
+ Tempting proposition but there's even better!!
+ Charmant Leontyne, charmant Tosca
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Mahler Lieder: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gustav Mahler, ...
EMI Classics, 2001
Vintage perfection
+ Simply Sublime, especially for the price!
+ Shattering version of Kindertotenlieder
The Philharmonia Orchestra under Furtwangler accompany Fischer-Dieskau in the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, and these performances alone make this CD treasurable. The singing is fresh and involving, but the orchestral work really stands out - just perfect, and this from a conductor who ...
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Schubert: Piano Sonatas
Franz [Vienna] Schubert, Sviatoslav Richter
BBC Legends, 1999
The art to play Schubert successfully!
+ SCHUBERT ANEW
Most of actual pianists have been unable to decipher the refined elegance and spirit purity about Schubert' s music and have decided by themselves to replace it by a hedonistic frivolity. That fact not only demerits the intrinsic qualities of his compositions, but reveals an absolute disregard ...
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Bach: Matthus-Passion / Wilhelm Furtwngler (Mono 1954 recording)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Otto Edelmann, ...
Angel Records, 2001
Bring back the passion
+ Sublime
+ Depth and Tragedy
+ For personal reasons...
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