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The complete remastered digital recordings in a single box for the first time! Includes Also sprach Zarathustra ("hard to beat"), Don Juan ("exciting"), Don Quixote, Till Eulenspiegel, Ein Heldenleben, Death and Transfiguration ("electrifying"), Alpine Symphony ("no finer version") Metamorphosen ("great emotional urgency") and more [The Penguin Gui... [Read More]
The other major orchestral release here features the Richard Strauss recordings conducted for Sony Classical by Zubin Mehta. ClassicsToday.coms reviewer observed that Mehta always has been an excellent Straussian. The new 8-CD box includes major tone poems, the horn concertos, opera excerpts both orchestral and vocal with soprano Jane Eaglen and a ... [Read More]
Fritz Reiner conducts Richard Strauss The Complete RCA and Columbia Recordings In the history of recording there have been a handful of inseparable associations of an artist with a composer: Rubinstein and Chopin, Gould and Bach, Bernstein and Mahler come immediately to mind. Another such fabled fusion was Fritz Reiner and the music of Richard Stra... [Read More]
This new recording presents orchestral suites based on two of the most significant operas in history. Der Rosenkavalier found its place in the concert hall from the beginning, first with two waltz sequences and later with the famos 1944 suite. But Elektra remained purely on the opera stage until now. Conductor Manfred Honeck has made his own sympho... [Read More]
Richard Strauss rarely recorded one act opera Daphne is based loosely on the eponymously named character from Ovid's Metamorphoses and was dedicated by Strauss to the conductor Karl Böhm. Considered legendary by many, this 1944 recording is finally re-issued featuring Böhm conducting the Vienna Philharmonic with singers Herbert Alsen, Maria Reini... [Read More]
October 21, 2012 marks Sir Georg Soltis centenary and Decca is celebrating this with several important reissues.Sir Georg was an exclusive Decca artist for 50 years.In 1947 he signed his first contract with Decca - as a pianist and that same year he made his first record as a conductor (with the Zurich Tonhalle in Beethovens Egmont Overture). His l... [Read More]
Recorded in 2003 at New York s Metropolitan Opera, this sumptuous production of Ariadne auf Naxos presents divas Deborah Voigt and Natalie Dessay in the contrasting roles which embody the opera s themes: the deserted princess Ariadne, a one-man woman who believes in loyalty unto death, and the flirtatious comedienne Zerbinetta, who takes a more pra... [Read More]
This performance centers around the preparation, performance, and problems that come with staging an opera. Stars Jessye Norman as Primadonna/Ariadne. This Metropolitan Opera production is conducted by James Levine. Information about the performances a
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