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1.Four Last Songs from: Decca September 16, 2008
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This recording is sublime; Renee Flemings interpretation is outstanding and her German totally understandable. I've ripped this CD to my computer, downloaded to my MP3 player so I can listen as I'm Nordic walking and have a CD in my car!!!

2.Four Last Songs from: Decca September 16, 2008
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This set of glorious performances by Renee Fleming, both the older ones included on the bonus disk and the new ones, especially the new versions of Strauss's Vier Letzte Lieder, seem to me so fine as to be nearly beyond praise. Listening to them, especially after reading some of the more critical comments here, has taken me back some 50 years to when I was a young lad in LA diving into the world of great singing, all on LPs then. There was much discussion in those days about Renata Tebaldi and Maria Callas -- in fact, there was a debate, and sometimes a bitter one, about whether Tebaldi was better than Callas, or Callas better than Tebaldi. (A similar debate was going on over the different sorts of violin playing offered by Francescatti and Heifetz.) This debate struck me then, and strikes me ... Read More

3.The Voice from: Deutsche Grammophon July 04, 2006
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My 80 year old aunt, a true fan of the classics assures me that NO ONE sings better than Thomas Quasthoff. She loves him, she loves this CD which I bought her as a gift.

4.R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie; Rosenkavalier-Suite [SACD] from: Deutsche Grammophon May 13, 2003
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Listening to it is indeed exciting-- majestic like one is ascending the Alps! Highly recommended...

5.Orff - Carmina Burana / Oelze, Keenlyside, Kuebler; Thielemann by: Carl Orff, Christian Thielemann, Christiane Oelze, Simon Keenlyside, Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, David Kuebler August 10, 1999
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The crowd loves Carmina Burana as much as serious musicians disdain it, and the whole point is to raise the roof. Intrinsically Orff's idiom is pop crossover from Stravinsky (primarily) with college glee club tunes. In live performance the work can be as much fun as the circus, but not here. I've rarely heard such a poker-faced reading. Thielemann usually wears an emotional mask; in this case it's imprenetrable. You can't tell which songs are erotic, joyous, parodistic, or mock reverent. Those qualities come out vividly in readings by Jochum, Fruhbeck de Burgos, and Stokowksi. For all that, Thielemann knows how to marshal large forces, and everyone concerned does well. Nothing drags or sounds turgid in texture. Simon Keenlyside is especially smooth and sensitive in his solos (if that's what ... Read More

6.Orff: Carmina Burana [DVD Audio] from: Deutsche Grammophon November 11, 2003
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The crowd loves Carmina Burana as much as serious musicians disdain it, and the whole point is to raise the roof. Intrinsically Orff's idiom is pop crossover from Stravinsky (primarily) with college glee club tunes. In live performance the work can be as much fun as the circus, but not here. I've rarely heard such a poker-faced reading. Thielemann usually wears an emotional mask; in this case it's imprenetrable. You can't tell which songs are erotic, joyous, parodistic, or mock reverent. Those qualities come out vividly in readings by Jochum, Fruhbeck de Burgos, and Stokowksi. For all that, Thielemann knows how to marshal large forces, and everyone concerned does well. Nothing drags or sounds turgid in texture. Simon Keenlyside is especially smooth and sensitive in his solos (if that's what ... Read More

7.Schumann: Symphony No. 2 / Manfred Overture / Konzertstück for 4 Horns - Christian Thielemann / Philharmonia Orchestra from: Deutsche Grammophon November 11, 1997
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I was somewhat disappointed by this album. The Konzertstuck, a magnificent and devilishly difficult work for four horns and orchestra, receives a solid but unspecial performance. Thielemann's tempos, particularly in the Schumann Symphony #2, seem ponderous and rather unorthodox. FOr the second symphony I much prefer Wolfgang Sawallisch's recording. What I still find bewildering is that DG produced the greatest-ever recording of the Konzertstuck and yet that recording is now out of print. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra recorded the Konzertstuck in the 1970s, with principal hornist Dale Clevenger playing the high part. Those guys produced a spectacular "wall of sound" with pinpoint precision and accuracy. And, the CSO of course is a much better orchestra than the Philharmonia. Hopefully, someday ... Read More

8.Wagner: Tristan und Isolde by: Wagner, Moser, Holl, Vopc, Vpo, Thielemann, Deborah Voigt June 15, 2004
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Since Thielemann's live Tristan and EMI's studio version with Placido Domingo both received decidedly mixed reviews, I thought it would be interesting to consider the leading available choices for this great opera. By some accounts, all are so uneven that there is no clear winner, but at least you can consider which elements of the work are most important to you and make your selection that way. Condcutor: If all that mattered were the conductor, the situation would be golden. Wilhelm Furtwangler heads the list in 1952 with his much-acclaimed mono set on EMI, but at almost exactly the same time Karajan was conducting a live performance at Bayreuth, now issued in good broadcast mono by Orfeo, that gives Furtwangler a serious rival -- I prefer it, in fact. Twenty years later, this time in stereo, Karajan was magnificent ... Read More

9.Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 from: Deutsche Grammophon March 11, 1997
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These performances of this popular pairing are so gloriously un-HIP that one's ears can't help but prick up and take notice -- I love 'em! I'm sure many modern ears might not be endeared with Thielemann's "old fashioned" push & pull approach with both tempo and dynamics, but the orchestra responds wonderfully and makes Beethoven sound as heavy and significant as one often imagines he "should" be. I find myself recommending this to novice listeners as the perfect modern complement to DG's same pairing featuring the renown recordings of Carlos Kleiber.

10.Wagner: Parsifal from: Deutsche Grammophon May 09, 2006
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There was a time, not too many decades ago, when musicians did not dare to record the greatest, most difficult works until they were deeply experienced and had already proven they had something to say about the work. Here we have a perplexing mix of the veteran and the neophyte, not always to best effect. Christian Thielemann has proven himself to be one of the Great Wagner-Strauss conductors of our time, although our times are not especially fertile in that regard. Still, he is highly persuasive: his sense of pace is excellent, his attention to detail is exceptional. (I do not know how many times he had done the opera previously. His first Bayreuth Ring a year later was extraordinary.)While he is a modern conductor in his primary attention to overall orchestral blend, he is not afraid to seperate choirs and solo lines to vary textures. No ... Read More

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