The Requiem selection is "Ingemisco," sung by Luciano Pavarotti in a 1987 recording conducted by Riccardo Muti.
BDA [battle damage assessment] recording conducted by AH-64 Gun Tape.
Her Lady Macbeth is preserved on a classic 1976 Deutsche Grammophon recording, conducted by Claudio Abbado.
Yet I missed having the chance to hear Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra, which the orchestra plays so beautifully on a Deutsche Grammophon recording conducted by Pierre Boulez.
That's the question raised by an analysis of Pentagon travel records conducted by the Centre for Public Integrity, a non-profit group based in Washington, DC.
Queen Marguerite — a role sung by Joan Sutherland on a landmark 1969 recording, conducted by Richard Bonynge — was sung here by Erin Morley, a coloratura soprano who combined earthy sound and agile technique in a formidable performance.
Still, the somber beauty of Mendelssohn's music gets to me, especially in the 1968 recording conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, featuring some incomparable vocal soloists: Janet Baker, the young Gwyneth Jones, Nicolai Gedda and Dietrich Fischer-Dietrich
In the event, Ms. Vishnevskaya was barred from leaving the Soviet Union, and the English soprano Heather Harper filled in, though Ms. Vishnevskaya can be heard with the others in the work's irreplaceable first recording, conducted by Britten himself for Decca.
Yvonne Minton on the Sony Classical recording conducted by Pierre Boulez unashamedly sings them; the instrumental ensemble contains Barenboim, Zukerman and Lynn Harrell no less, but there is something too comfortable about the final result.
For example, the extended final scene from Act II of "Otello" is taken from Mr. Domingo's 1993 Deutsche Grammophon recording conducted by Mr. Chung, which is strong though not as exciting as his 1978 RCA recording conducted Mr. Levine, which has the additional advantage of Sherrill Milnes's incomparable Iago.
