Tag: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor; Exsultate, Jubilate
(Exsultate, jubilate) “Miss Stader gives an even more assured performance now and manages to keep the feeling of exaltation up to the end ..an excellent performance.” (Mass) “both the cathedral choir and the symphony orchestra produce glorious sonorities surpassed only by the fine team of soloists. Of these, Maria Stader is outstanding for her supremely…
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Arthur Grumiaux: The Boston Recordings
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Kokopeli: Katherine Hoover Plays
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Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s, Vol. 5
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Elegy: Music of Remembrance
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Mozart: ‘Gran Partita’ Wind Serenade; Opera Wind Arrangements
“another first-rate version of this gorgeous work..a deeply affectionate reading of the music, and it is beautifully played. Jane Glover is not afraid to take some really slow tempos: for the introduction to the first movement, for the heavenly adagio in which the three leading players are finely eloquent – and in the Romance, surely…
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Fifty Shades of Opera – 50 Sensual Arias
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Joan Sutherland Collector’s Album: Rare Broadcasts
“includes the most perfect trill (the Bononcini) we have ever heard” (alto) ‘After so many spinto Annas who sound like refugees from Brünnhilde’s riding club, it was a revelation to hear a fresh, young lyric voice of uncommon purity at the command of an impeccable musician…She did not stun with bravura; she captivated with humanity’…
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 22
“pianism of a high order: crisply articulated, with fine balance between incidental details and the overall shape of a movement, and indeed of the whole work. The emotional content is brought out with no exaggeration: Tirimo brings out the essence of the music, nothing being allowed to come between the composer and us”. (International Record…
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Opera Arias
“This collection shows how directly he transplants Lieder-style into another genre…on the Mozart side the results are both convincing and intensely memorable. Fischer-Dieskau has twice recorded the part of Papageno, these earlier Fricsay versions have been preferred to the later Bohm …and in the Don Giovanni items….the Don’s Champagne Aria and Serenade are more mellifluous….…
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Fritz Wunderlich Arias
“His singing of Mozart was exemplary …..style and elegance, perfect breath control, and superb diction. And a belief in what he was singing! All this in evidence in Ottavio’s sublime aria Dalla sua pace. What other singer has made Dies Bildnis into such a heartfelt love song? Few tenors have captured so well Belmonte’s anticipation…
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The Best of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
“Elisabeth Schwarzkopf possessed one of the most distinctive voices of the post-war era….her range of vocal colouring was quite staggering, and few sopranos before or since have possessed a similar ability to act with their voices.” (J. Murray)
