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March: Featured Music

Siegfried Keilberth Testament SBT4 1392

SIEGFRIED, Live Performance, 1955, w.Keilberth Cond. Bayreuth Festival Ensemble; Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Paul Kuén, Gustav Neidlinger, Maria von Ilosvay, Josef Greindl, etc. (England) 4-Testament SBT4 1392, from Unpublished Decca recording. Outstanding sound quality!

Reviews:
"For more than 50 years, the RING recorded by Decca at Bayreuth in 1955 has lain unheard in the company’s archives….Of course, in one form or another, the Bayreuth RING cycles of the 1950s…have been made available on official and unofficial labels over the years, but none of those – with their many merits – has anything like the sound-quality achieved here….No opera house or recording has since rivaled the cast assembled here, not even the Decca set by which time Hotter, Windgassen and Neidlinger were all some 10 years older. In 1955 all three are the peak of their form and – singing live rather than in the studio – are that much more involved and involving."- Alan Blyth, Gramophone, March, 2006

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Ulysse Lappas Callas Clama 48

ULISSE LAPPAS: Songs by Lavdas, Samara, Triantafyllou, Cardillo, Xanthopoulos, Psaroudas & Denza; Arias from Andrea Chénier, I Pagliacci, La Fanciulla del West, Tosca, Carmen, Manon Lescaut, Markos Botsaris, Aïda, Perousè & La Gioconda – recorded 1923-26; MARIA CALLAS, w.Gavazzeni Cond. RAI S.O., Roma: Il Turco in Italia – Non si dà follia maggiore – recorded 19 Oct., 1950 – First Release. (Italy) Clama 48. Elaborate 60pp. booklet, w.Lappas Biography, Exhaustive Chronology; Numerous Photos; Discography

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Joseph Calleja Decca 475 6931

JOSEPH CALLEJA, w.Rizzi Cond. Academy of St Martin in the Fields Orch.: The Golden Voice, incl. Arias from I Puritani, Il Duca d’Alba, Don Sebastiano, I Lombardi, L'Elisir, La Favorita, Roméo, Manon, La Belle Hélène, Werther, Si J’étais Roi, Les Pêcheurs de Perles & Maristella; w.Anna Netrebko: La Sonnambula – Son geloso del zefiro errante. (E.U.) Decca 475 6931, recorded 2005.

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