Tag: Philharmonia Chorus
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Lehár: The Merry Widow
“Merry Widow hats, corsets, dresses, cocktails and cigarettes all became the height of fashion. Sheet music sales rocketed and made Lehár the richest composer in the business. From 1907, the piece was subsequently filmed three times by MGM… This classic recording features perhaps the most famous “widow” of all in Elisabeth Schwarzkopf” © James Murray…
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Don Giovanni
For half a century, a rare concensus of critical opinion has deemed this landmark recording of Mozart’s Don Giovanni the finest recording of a work frequently deemed greatest opera in the repertoire. The cast is a who’s who of opera legends from the early stereo era, including (a young) Joan Sutherland, Eberhard Waechter, Giuiseppe Taddei,…
