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Wagner: Parsifal / Thielemann, Domingo, et al

4 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2006-05-09

Works: Richard Wagner: Parsifal
Performers: Anger, Ain; Baechle, Janina; Bankl, Wolfgang; Denschlag, Daniela; Dickie, John [Tenor Vocal]; Domingo, Placido; Ivan, Simina; Jelosits, Peter; Keszei, Bori; Kobel, Benedikt; Krasteva, Nadia; Los, Inn...
Conductors: Thielemann, Christian
Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus

"Other opera houses can only dream of a season finale like this one. (Domingo) phrases gloriously and is intelligent enough to know where he needs...continue...

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte / Gardiner, Oelze, Schade, Sieden

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1996-09-17

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620
Performers: Backes, Constanze; Burt, Robert; Dieterich, Andreas; Finley, Gerald [Bass-Baritone Vocals]; Guber, Carola; Johnston, Robert; Jonas, Maria; Knauer, Wolfgang; Mann, Noel; Mendel, Jan Andreas; Oelze, Ch...
Conductors: Gardiner, John Eliot

"...disciplined, ordered playing and singing, buoyant rhythms, tellingly balanced sonorities, attention to every detail of color and counterpoint allowing for pellucid textures...these, allied to the...continue...

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro / Abbado, Gallo, McNair, et al

3 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1996-01-23

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492
Performers: Allemano, Carlo; Antonacci, Anna Caterina [Soprano]; Bartoli, Cecilia; Bartolomey, Franz; D'Arcangelo, Ildebrando; Gallo, Lucio; Gati, Istvan; Jelosits, Peter; McNair, Sylvia; Rost, Andrea [Soprano V...
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio
Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Gramophone Magazine
a little on the plush side, perhaps, but with a good cast including a nicely tremulous Cherubino from Cecilia Bartoli
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Mahler: Symphonie no 4 / Bernstein, Wittek, Concertgebouw

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1988-08-08

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 4 in G major
Performers: Wittek, Helmut; Zweden, Jaap van
Conductors: Bernstein, Leonard
Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra