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 | Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring Cycle) / Sir Georg Solti
Modern storage media (CD/DVD) offer both high fidelity and great reliability in the playback of music. Yet only a bit more than a generation ago, the possibilities inherent in the long-playing record inspired John Culshaw, a young producer for Decca, to...
Manufacturer: Decca
| $123.95 - $181.98
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 | Leontyne Price Sings Barber
Early in her career, Leontyne Price formed an artistic liaison with Samuel Barber that resulted in his composing the female lead in Antony and Cleopatra for her. The disastrous premiere of that opera prevented Price from making a complete recordi...
Manufacturer: RCA
| $5.96
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 | Puccini: Suor Angelica / Bonynge, Sutherland
Though Puccini's trilogy of one-act operas, Il Trittico, is hard to love in its totality, Suor Angelica shows the composer retreating from melodramatic verismo into a more lyrical expression, as befits this story of a nun driven to suici...
Manufacturer: Decca
| $7.25
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 | Prima Voce - Marian Anderson / Shaw
Marian Anderson's rich contralto tinged with sadness touched the hearts of many and made her one of the most-loved American singers. She's probably best known for her spirituals on recordings made in the twilight of her career. In these good transfer...
Manufacturer: Nimbus Records
| $6.75
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 | Rossini - Il Turco in Italia / Bartoli, Corbelli, Pertusi, Vargas, Teatro alla Scala, Chailly
This Pirandello-like, 1814 comedy of manners has long lived in the shadow of Rossini's better-known L'Italiana in Algeri, but this recording, more than either of its predecessors, allows it to bloom in all its ironic loveliness. Cecilia Bartoli, ...
Manufacturer: Decca
| $33.98 - $46.98
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 | Kathleen Battle in Concert
After years of being one of the foremost singers of light lyrics, Kathleen Battle, searching for challenging new musical expression, tackles the dramatic Mozart repertory. Blessed with one of our generation's prettiest soubrette voices, Battle breeze...
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
| $5.83 - $9.98
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| Arnold Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
This is the biggest piece of music ever performed with any regularity. Anyone who avoids Schoenberg because his name is synonymous with that nasty, atonal stuff need have no fear. This is a ripe, Romantic score with big tunes and cinematic orchestrat...
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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