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Gerald Moore, Victoria de los Angeles – Victoria de los Ángeles in Concert (Live, Royal Festival Hall, 1964) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:41 minutes | 1,65 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Legendary prima donnas often have an epithet – whether la Divina, la Stupenda or la Superba. The Catalan singer Victoria de los Angeles, who celebrated her 100th birthday on November 1, 2023. If I had celebrated my birthday, the addition la Suprema was certainly due. Like hardly any other soprano of her time, she was able to combine sound, language, feeling, refinement and charm in the highest perfection in her vocal art – whether on stage, in the concert hall, on the song podium or in the recording studio. She bears the name García in her birth name and thus commemorates the legendary Spanish opera singer and vocal teacher Manuel García, father of the famous divas Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot. In her singing style one thinks to hear the inspiration of the great namesake – timbre, phrasing, intimacy, nobility and elegance combine to sublime, aristocratic perfection.
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Gerald Moore – Homage to Gerald Moore (Live at Royal Festival Hall, 1967) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:31:43 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
EMI’s prestigious ‘Great Recordings of the Century’ series has featured a host of celebrated conductors, singers and instrumental virtuosi. Why, you may think, should an issue pay tribute to a “mere” accompanist? However, as I pointed out recently when comparing two recordings by Hans Hotter of Schubert’s Winterreise, a perceptive accompanist can make all the difference. In that instance, the perspicacious accompanist whose contribution to one of the two versions made it a clear winner, was Gerald Moore, the musician celebrated here.
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Gerald Moore – Wolf: Italian Song Book (Remastered) (1961/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:36 minutes | 782 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
In 1947 a brilliant generation of Austro-German singers represented the Vienna State Opera for a short season at Covent Garden. Among those known to London audiences from before the war were Maria Cebotari and Hans Hotter; new were Anton Dermota, Erich Kunz and an array of sopranos headed by Hilde Gueden, Sena Jurinac, Emmy Loose, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried and Ljuba Welitsch. For one famous evening Richard Tauber joined the cast of Don Giovanni before entering the hospital in which he died four months later. It was a season which, more than any other event at the time, reassured opera-goers that traditions survived and that singing of real distinction, even greatness, might yet be heard in the postwar world.
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Gerald Moore – Songs You Love (Remastered) (1957/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:08 minutes | 775 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
In 1947 a brilliant generation of Austro-German singers represented the Vienna State Opera for a short season at Covent Garden. Among those known to London audiences from before the war were Maria Cebotari and Hans Hotter; new were Anton Dermota, Erich Kunz and an array of sopranos headed by Hilde Gueden, Sena Jurinac, Emmy Loose, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried and Ljuba Welitsch. For one famous evening Richard Tauber joined the cast of Don Giovanni before entering the hospital in which he died four months later. It was a season which, more than any other event at the time, reassured opera-goers that traditions survived and that singing of real distinction, even greatness, might yet be heard in the postwar world.
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Gerald Moore – Wolf: The Italian Songbook (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:42 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
In 1947 a brilliant generation of Austro-German singers represented the Vienna State Opera for a short season at Covent Garden. Among those known to London audiences from before the war were Maria Cebotari and Hans Hotter; new were Anton Dermota, Erich Kunz and an array of sopranos headed by Hilde Gueden, Sena Jurinac, Emmy Loose, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried and Ljuba Welitsch. For one famous evening Richard Tauber joined the cast of Don Giovanni before entering the hospital in which he died four months later. It was a season which, more than any other event at the time, reassured opera-goers that traditions survived and that singing of real distinction, even greatness, might yet be heard in the postwar world.
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