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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
| $109.99 - $181.98
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 | Verdi: Aida
Here's a prime-1950s cast in good monophonic sound, and it delivers the vocal thrills to keep its place high among the preferred recordings of Aida. The first voice you hear is the rich, rumbling bass of Boris Christoff and that immediately let...
Manufacturer: RCA
| $21.99 - $35.98
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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
| $6.08
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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
| $7.24
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 | My World
The cover is a bit much: Angela Gheorghiu descending from an airplane in a glamorous 1950s suit suggesting she's the reincarnation of Maria Callas. And in the notes, the fabulous Romanian soprano tells of her jet-setting life and how this internation...
Manufacturer: Decca
| $13.98 - $16.98
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