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ClassicsToday.com Review Digest for Performances by Erich Leinsdorf


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COMPOSER ALBUM/WORK TITLE PERFORMER LABEL CATALOG MEDIUM RATING
Bartok, Bela
SYMPHONY HALL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Koussevitsky; Cantelli; Walter; Monteux; Munch; Leinsdorf; Steinberg; Ozawa; Kubelik; Giulini; others
Boston Symphony Orchestra 100 CD 9/8
Beethoven, Ludwig van
A Survivor From Warsaw
Symphony No. 9 in D minor Op. 125
Jane Marsh (soprano); Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano); Placido Domingo (tenor); Sherrill Milnes (baritone & narrator in A Survivor From Warsaw)
Chorus Pro Musica; New England Conservatory Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
RCA 63682 CD 8/10
Bernstein, Leonard
SYMPHONY HALL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Koussevitsky; Cantelli; Walter; Monteux; Munch; Leinsdorf; Steinberg; Ozawa; Kubelik; Giulini; others
Boston Symphony Orchestra 100 CD 9/8
Brahms, Johannes
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Op. 83; Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1 Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
RCA 60860-2 CD 8/9
Debussy, Claude
Scheherazade; Russian Easter Overture
La Mer
Israel Baker (violin)
Concert Arts Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Erich Leinsdorf
EMI 67314 CD 7/7
Donizetti, Gaetano
MONTSERRAT CABALLÉ--THE ORIGINAL JACKET COLLECTION
Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano); Bernabé Marti (tenor); Miguel Zanetti (piano)
Various orchestras & conductors

Sony Classical 886972707228 CD 9/8
Donizetti, Gaetano
ANNA MOFFO: A PORTRAIT OF MANON--GREAT LOVE DUETS
Anna Moffo (soprano); Giuseppe di Stefano, Flaviano Labo, Carlo Bergonzi, Richard Tucker, Cesare Valletti (tenor); others
Various conductors & orchestras

Testament SBT21420 CD 8/7
Granados, Enrique
MONTSERRAT CABALLÉ--THE ORIGINAL JACKET COLLECTION
Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano); Bernabé Marti (tenor); Miguel Zanetti (piano)
Various orchestras & conductors

Sony Classical 886972707228 CD 9/8
Mahler, Gustav
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra; New England Conservatory Chorus; Boston Boychoir
Erich Leinsdorf
RCA 63469-2 CD 5/8
Mahler, Gustav
Symphony No. 6 in A minor Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
Orfeo 554 011 CD 6/10
Massenet, Jules
ANNA MOFFO: A PORTRAIT OF MANON--GREAT LOVE DUETS
Anna Moffo (soprano); Giuseppe di Stefano, Flaviano Labo, Carlo Bergonzi, Richard Tucker, Cesare Valletti (tenor); others
Various conductors & orchestras

Testament SBT21420 CD 8/7
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Don Giovanni (highlights) Cesare Siepi; Birgit Nilsson; Leontyne Price; Cesare Valletti; Fernando Corena
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic
Erich Leinsdorf
Decca 458 245-2 CD 6/7
Prokofiev, Sergei
Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
Testament SBT 1396 CD 6/6
Puccini, Giacomo
ANNA MOFFO: A PORTRAIT OF MANON--GREAT LOVE DUETS
Anna Moffo (soprano); Giuseppe di Stefano, Flaviano Labo, Carlo Bergonzi, Richard Tucker, Cesare Valletti (tenor); others
Various conductors & orchestras

Testament SBT21420 CD 8/7
Puccini, Giacomo
Turandot Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tebaldi (soprano); Jussi Bjoerling (tenor); Giorgio Tozzi (bass); others
Rome Opera House Orchestra & Chorus
Erich Leinsdorf
RCA 82876826242 CD 9/7
Ravel, Maurice
SYMPHONY HALL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Koussevitsky; Cantelli; Walter; Monteux; Munch; Leinsdorf; Steinberg; Ozawa; Kubelik; Giulini; others
Boston Symphony Orchestra 100 CD 9/8
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
Scheherazade; Russian Easter Overture
La Mer
Israel Baker (violin)
Concert Arts Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Erich Leinsdorf
EMI 67314 CD 7/7
Schoenberg, Arnold
A Survivor From Warsaw
Symphony No. 9 in D minor Op. 125
Jane Marsh (soprano); Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano); Placido Domingo (tenor); Sherrill Milnes (baritone & narrator in A Survivor From Warsaw)
Chorus Pro Musica; New England Conservatory Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
RCA 63682 CD 8/10
Schoenberg, Arnold
Der Ring des Nibelungen (orchestral excerpts); Parsifal (orchestral excerpts)
Chamber Symphony No. 1
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Erich Leinsdorf
Hänssler Classic 93.040 CD 8/7
Sibelius, Jean
Violin Concerto
Violin Concerto
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
RCA 82876-59419-2 CD 9/7
Strauss, Richard
MONTSERRAT CABALLÉ--THE ORIGINAL JACKET COLLECTION
Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano); Bernabé Marti (tenor); Miguel Zanetti (piano)
Various orchestras & conductors

Sony Classical 886972707228 CD 9/8
Strauss, Richard
Ariadne auf Naxos (original 1912 version) Benita Valente, Carole Bogard, Beverly Sills, Claire Watson (soprano); Robert Nagy (tenor); John Reardon (baritone); Eunice Alberts (alto); Andrew Raeburn (speaker); others
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
VAI 4363 DVD 9/6
Tchaikovsky, Peter
Violin Concerto
Violin Concerto
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
RCA 82876-59419-2 CD 9/7
Verdi, Giuseppe
MONTSERRAT CABALLÉ--THE ORIGINAL JACKET COLLECTION
Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano); Bernabé Marti (tenor); Miguel Zanetti (piano)
Various orchestras & conductors

Sony Classical 886972707228 CD 9/8
Wagner, Richard
Der Ring des Nibelungen (orchestral excerpts); Parsifal (orchestral excerpts)
Chamber Symphony No. 1
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Erich Leinsdorf
Hänssler Classic 93.040 CD 8/7
Wagner, Richard
Die Walküre Helen Traubel (soprano); Astrid Varnay (soprano); Lauritz Melchior (tenor); Alexander Kipnis (bass); Friedrich Schorr (baritone); others
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
Naxos 8.110058-60 CD 9/3
Wagner, Richard
DIE WALKÜRE Birgit Nilsson, Gré Brouwenstijn (soprano); Rita Gorr (mezzo-soprano); Jon Vickers (tenor); David Ward, George London (bass); others
London Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
Decca 470 443-2 CD 7/8
Wagner, Richard
Die Walküre Kirsten Flagstad (soprano); Lotte Lehmann (soprano); Lauritz Melchior (tenor); Emanuel List (bass); Friedrich Schorr (baritone); Karin Branzell (mezzo-soprano); others
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
Guild 2215/7 CD 9/3
Wagner, Richard
Parsifal Act 2 Kirsten Flagstad (soprano); Lauritz Melchior (tenor); Arnold Gabor (baritone); Herbert Janssen (baritone)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Erich Leinsdorf
Guild 2201 CD 8/2
Wagner, Richard
Rienzi; Tristan und Isolde; Lohengrin Helen Traubel (soprano); Lauritz Melchior (tenor); Torsten Ralf (tenor); Kurt Baum (tenor); Astrid Varnay (soprano)
Various
Erich Leinsdorf;
Ernst Knoch;
Artur Rodzinski;
Roberto Kinsky
Sony Classical 60896 CD 9/6

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