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We are happy to give you one of our largest offerings in a while! And for this week only they are 30% off!
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Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Richard Cassilly, Enzo Sordello |
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Geraint Evans, Anja Silja, Fritz Uhl |
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Peter Pears, Sylvia Fisher, James Peace |
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Régine Crespin, Raoul Jobin, Robert Massard |
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Lorna Haywood, Sylvia Fisher, Kenneth Woollam, Barbara Walker, Robert Ferguson |
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Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Lucy Peacock, Robert Kerns, Annabell Bernard |
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Anna Moffo, Elena Nicola Mario Petri, Aldo Bertocci |
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Leonie Rysanek, Franco Tagliavini, Eva Randová, Kostas Paskalis |
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Elsie Morison, Jean Watson, Jeannette Sinclair, Joan Sutherland, Sylvia Fisher, Jess Walters |
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Tatiana Troyanos, Jon Vickers, Graziella Sciutti |
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Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Joseph Rouleau, Andre Montal |
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Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Christa Ludwig, Piero Cappuccilli, Nicolai Ghiaurov, José van Dam |
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Hubert Hofmann, Jess Thomas, Bozena Ruk-Focic, George Shirley, David Ward, Josephine Veasey |
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Ferdinand Frantz, Res Fischer, Wolfgang Windgassen, Josef Greindl, Gottlob Frick |
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Arias and excerpts from Giulio Cesare, La Traviata, Semiramide, Beatrice di Tenda, Norma, Dialogues of the Carmelites, I Puritani, Lucia di Lammermoor, Die Zauberflöte and Les Contes d'Hoffmann |
4 New Titles featuring Joan Sutherland
and 40% off all Sutherland Recordings!
I am very pleased to offer a bonanza of Joan Sutherland recordings! This celebration includes:
- Four brand new titles featuring Sutherland (see below)
- 40% off all recordings featuring Sutherland
- A new download of almost two hours of music featuring… you guessed it… Joan Sutherland!
Click here to view all of Joan Sutherland's recordings, and join us in celebrating one of the greatest sopranos in the history of opera!
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Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Richard Cassilly, Enzo Sordello |
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Elsie Morison, Jean Watson, Jeannette Sinclair, Joan Sutherland, Sylvia Fisher, Jess Walters |
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Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Joseph Rouleau |
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Joan Sutherland: A Retrospective Arias and excerpts from Giulio Cesare, La Traviata, Semiramide, Beatrice di Tenda, Norma, Dialogues of the Carmelites and many more. |
April New Releases
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Jess Walters, Marea Wolkowsky, Thorsteinn Hannesson, Parry Jones |
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Joan Sutherland, André Turp, John Shaw, Joseph Rouleau, Kenneth MacDonald |
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Kiri Te Kanawa, Stuart Burrows, Norman Treigle, Thomas Allen, Anne Howells, Heather Begg |
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Cesare Siepi, Renata Tebaldi, Elena Nicolai |
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Sándór Konya, Mady Mesplé, Heather Harper, Radmila Bakocevic, Gabriel Bacquier |
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Peter Glossop, Teresa Berganza, Luis Alva, Geraint Evans, Joseph Rouleau |
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Richard Lewis, Forbes Robinson, Michael Langdon, Maureen Guy, John Lanigan |
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Erna Schlüter, Ljuba Welitsch, Elisabeth Höngen, Paul Schöffler, Walter Widdop |
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Söderström, Mattwilda Dobbs, Arne Tyrén |
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David Ward, Barbara Holt, Kenneth MacDonald, Monica Sinclair, Joseph Ward, Elizabeth Vaughan |
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Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Piero Cappuccilli |
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Wolfgang Windgassen, Martha Mödl, Gustav Neidlinger, Otto von Rohr, Heinz Cramer |
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Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Josef Greindl, Gustav Neidlinger, Kurt Böhme, Lili Chookasian, Erika Köth |
 Jess Walters, Marea Wolkowsky, Thorsteinn Hannesson, Parry Jones |
About this recording… This complete performance is notable for two reasons: the opera is sung in English and it is conducted by the great Erich Kleiber. English speakers will appreciate the immediacy of hearing this great drama in the vernacular and lovers of great conducting will marvel at the lightness and transparency that Kleiber brings to Berg's savagely beautiful score. Kleiber makes the complexities of the score seem almost effortless, and whereas so many conductors seem to approach the piece as a math puzzle, Kleiber shows that there is a strong organic quality to the score that is greater than mixed-meters and tone rows. The cast is very strong. Jess Walters brings a nobility and thoughtfulness to the title roles even at the moments when the character is seemingly becoming undone. Marea Wolkowsky is a sensual Marie. Parry Jones stands out as the Captain. [Read more] |
 Richard Lewis, Forbes Robinson, Michael Langdon, Maureen Guy, John Lanigan |
About this recording… Moses und Aron is certainly a more challenging work that Wozzeck both dramatically and musically. The music lacks the atavistic romanticism of Berg's score and the drama does not have the same kind of power. That is not to say that this opera is any less of a satisfying experience. The colors Schoenberg creates have an otherworldly quality much like the Rite of Spring. For example, in the opening scene Moses is depicted speaking to God through the burning bush. Schoenberg sets the voice of God as a six voice choir juxtaposed with a chorus of children singing in Sprechstimme. The effect is mesmerizing. Although I have seen this opera live twice now, I don't think it has ever really made sense to me until I came across this performance. This is due mostly to the fact that it is sung in English. When you hear Sprechstimme in your native tongue you will find that the style begins to make sense and Forbes Robinson, as Moses, seems devoted to the idea of approaching this style as if it were a spoken play with music underneath even to the detriment of his otherwise mellifluous bass voice. [Read more] |
March New Releases!!!
I am incredibly excited about these 15 new titles. They represent an ecclectic mix of some of the greatest singers/conductors in some very interesting repertoire.
March New Releases!
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Nicolai Gedda, Napoléon Bisson, Robert Massard, David Ward, Elizabeth Vaughan, Yvonne Minton |
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Fiorenza Cossotto, Plácido Domingo, Adriana Maliponte, José Van Dam |
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Robert Kerns, Richard Lewis, Forbes Robinson, Delme Bryn-Jones |
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Mirella Freni, José Van Dam, Gundula Janowitz, Gabriel Bacquier, Frederic von Stade |
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Marie Collier, Charles Craig, Tito Gobbi, Joan Carlyle, Sylvia Fishers, Yvonne Minton, Elizabeth Vaughan, John Wakefield |
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Amy Shuard, Franco Corelli, Elizabeth Vaughan, David Kelly |
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Gabriel Bacquier, Raina Kabaivanska, Gianni Raimondi, William Wilderman |
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Gerda Lammers, Hedwig Müller-Bütow, Georgine von Milinkovic, Otakar Kraus |
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Montserrat Caballé, Teresa Zylis-Gara, Liselotte Hammes, Otto Edelmann |
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Hildergard Behrens, Walter Böhm, José van Dam, Agnes Baltsa, Wieslaw Ochman |
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Gianfranco Cecchele, Martina Arroyo, Grace Bumbry, Cesare Siepi, Angelo Romero |
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Richard Cassilly, Enriquetta Tarres, Giuseppe Taddei |
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Der Ring des Catarina Ligendza, Jean Cox, Theo Adam, Gwyneth Jones, Helge Brilioth, Karl Ridderbusch |
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Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Grace Hoffman, Gustav Neidlinger, Martti Talvela |
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Montserrat Caballé: A Retrospective Arias and Excerpts from Norma, I Vespri Siciliani, La donna del Lago, Manon Lescaut, Salome, Der Rosenkavalier, Don Carlo and Many More! |
A New Ring Cycle!
Bayreuth, 1971. Horst Stein, conductor
 Catarina Ligendza, Jean Cox, Theo Adam, Gwyneth Jones, Helga Brilioth, Karl Ridderbusch, Anna Reynolds, Gustav Neidlinger, Janis Martin |
About this Ring Cycle…. In a world where Wagner fans have become accustomed to tolerating middle aged, overweight singers playing young heroes and heroines, this recording is a much welcome change of pace as the entire cast produces one of the most youthful Rings I have ever heard. And although at times we have to forgo the power that Nilsson or Flagstad brought to their roles, it is more than made up for by the verisimilitude that these singers bring to their parts. As Brünnhilde, Catarina Ligendza brings a pure tone with no shortage of power, and miraculously bridges the naive quality of the Walküre Brünnhilde with the sensuality of the Götterdämmerung Brünnhilde into a cohesive and complete character. [Read more] |
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Theo Adam, Anna Reynolds, Gustav Neidlinger, Karl Ridderbusch, Janis Martin |
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Catarina Ligendza, Theo Adam, Gwyneth Jones, Helge Brilioth |
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Jean Cox, Catarina Ligendza, Theo Adam, Gustav Neidlinger, Georg Paskuda |
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Catarina Ligendza, Jean Cox, Karl Ridderbusch, Franz Mazura, Gustav Neidlinger |
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