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As the advertising slogan has it: What becomes a legend most? Well, if it’s a legendary singer the answer is a re-release of her best
Corelli had it all–movie-star looks, a true tenore di forza voice, passionate singing that drove audiences to a frenzy, and the intelligence to explore repertoire
Vladimir Ashkenazy’s 1999 recital devoted to late Chopin works may cover familiar stomping ground for this pianist, yet it’s hardly a case of “same old
Before Eaglen there was Nilsson; before Nilsson, Flagstad; and before Flagstad was the singer many believe the greatest Wagnerian of them all, Frida Leider. She
It’s not often that you find a disc whose liner notes speak of today’s world as a “desacralized cosmos”, increasingly standardized and artificial, its people
Critics have labeled Robert Redford’s role in The Last Castle as a reprise of the character he played in Brubaker, so I guess it’s only
The playing of Christian Ferras tends toward a small, boxy sound and interpretive choices marked by displaced intensity. Either the fire is lacking, such as
The Mahler is a sad case. Kindertotenlieder, here transposed up a minor third (presumably to accommodate the soprano range) audibly taxes Kirsten Flagstad’s apparently waning
This famed performance, one of the two standard recommendations from the 1960s and ’70s (the other was Haitink’s), at last is generally available in the
In his day, Willi Boskovsky, said to have the “Viennese lilt in his genes”, was considered one of the great exponents of the Viennese Waltz.
