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"A commanding vocal and stage presence, bass-baritone George London, heard here in his only Elias recording, leads a noteworthy quartet of vocal soloists. Conductor Christopf von Dohnányi is best-known for his near twenty-year tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra. Completed in 1846 after extensive revising, Elias proved to be Mendelssohn's last completed work of this scale and scope. Newly remastered."

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In addition to the less-often heard at Bayreuth production of Lohengrin in 1958, French conductor André Cluytens also led this Die Meisteringer at the same year’s festival. + This newly re-mastered recording features noted Wagnerian Austrian-born baritone Otto Weiner (1911-2000) as Hans Sachs, Elisabeth Grümmer as Eva, and legendary bass-baritone Hans Hotter as Pogner.

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Gabriele Nani presents here a selection inspired by the evolution of “belcanto,” an Italian term that defines the style and technique of virtuoso singing, the human voice perceived as a musical instrument. The strictly technical rigours still central to Rossini contrast sharply with demands for the voice to be increasingly tense, robust, dramatic and heart-rending, as required by Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi, up to the realists, Puccini and Leoncavallo, where the voice is used to pure expressive effect, with the technical aspect taking second place. “Gabriele Noni is a Figaro with a beautiful baritone voice, sufficiently braggart and likable and imposes his exuberant personality and talkativeness.” (L’Opera)

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