*Classical

Alison Balsom

Alison Balsom, Quentin Thomas

This outstanding collection of studio recitals provides fascinating insights into Maria Callas’s career and her unique artistry and musicality. Encompassing the core operatic repertoire for which she was most revered, as well as roles that she never sang on stage, these recitals demonstrate Callas’s exceptional versatility – from bel canto to verismo, dramatic mad scenes to impeccably sung coloratura – and form an integral part of her recorded legacy. The great value of these recitals is magnified by the new transfers made at Abbey Road Studios in 2014, using 24-bit 96kHz remastering.

Gautier Capucon, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

Piano Works, Chamber Music, Ballets, Songs, Choral And Orchestral Works

Svjatoslav Richter, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Oleg Kagan, David Oistrach, Mstislav Rostropovich, Borodin Quartet, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Philharmonia Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de l'Opera de Monte-Carlo, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, London Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Bashmet, Riccardo Muti, Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Carlos Kleiber, Lorin Maazel