221 products
221 products
BARTÓK – Il Castello di Barbablu (A Kékszakállú herceg vára) • Kertesz
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BÉLA BARTÓK
IL CASTELLO DI BARBABLU (A Kékszakállú herceg vára)
Barbablu – Walter Berry
Judith - Christa Ludwig
London Symphony Orchestra
István Kertész
Registrazione in studio / studio recording, London 1965
Classics Today
"The two protagonists are superb, Christa Ludwig in particular...Her high C at the opening of the fifth door indicates that she had nothing to fear from the competition...[Berry] offers an equally compelling, intelligent take on the enigmatic title character, and István Kertész's conducting is as idiomatic as one could wish. In short, this is a classic performance of a great work, one that in many ways has never been surpassed"
"Kertész shapes the music admirably, and Walter Berry makes an appropriately compassionate Bluebeard (as opposed to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on DG, who is altogether too menacing); but neither Berry, nor, for all the beauty of her tone, Christa Ludwig sound idiomatically Hungarian."
BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 9 • Ozawa
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Symphony no. 9 in d-minor
Rie Miyake, Mihoko Fujimura, Kei Fukui, Markus Eiche
Mito Chamber Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa
Registrazione dal vivo / live recording, Mito City 2019
"Questa esecuzione ci è piaciuta immediatamente perché offre una fusione di elementi che è davvero apprezzabile in un pezzo come la Nona di Beethoven: una piccola orchestra che dà trasparenza e chiarezza. Poi c'è l'approccio romantico del veterano Seiji Ozawa. La lettura di Ozawa elettrizza senza essere secca o rigida, l'orchestra è precisa e ben bilanciata, i tempi sono emozionanti. Quanto ai solisti, questa performance è sorprendentemente ben cantata."
"What emerges is a dignified, rather old-fashioned performance...It can be quite beautiful, expressively speaking, and technically the playing of the Mito Chamber Orchestra and the singing of the choir and soloists are excellent – wonderful to hear such clear intonation in the final solo quartet. At times it’s surprising how much depth and richness of sound Seiji Ozawa gets from such relatively modest forces."
"Cast solidly in the mould of German-based interpretations of the post-war era, it enshrines pathos and distributes joy with all the ritual solemnity due to the daiku as a modern icon of Japanese culture."
BRITTEN - War Requiem
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
WAR REQUIEM op. 66
Galina Vishnevskaya, Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Simon Preston
London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir
Benjamin Britten
"Among the most magnetic performances of British music ever put on record."
"The merits of this ground-breaking performance is that it so arrestingly conveys Britten's intentions. We're lucky to have not only Britten's irreplaceable reading refurbished, but also his commentary suggested by the rehearsal sequences."
