Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
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
Weber’s Der Freischütz has not wanted for good recordings. Carlos Kleiber’s 1973 set (DG) with Gundula Janowitz as Agathe has all the necessary atmosphere and
Weber wrote some of his most unfettered, ear-tickling music for the clarinet, and his quintet for that instrument and strings is no exception. Here is
Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more, wrote Lewis Carroll in “The Walrus and the Carpenter”. He might have
Robert Casadesus’ reputation has faded in the years since his 1972 death, perhaps because his often understated, aristocratic pianism lacked the flashy virtuosity of some
The coupling is certainly a hodgepodge, and the Vivaldi, Weber, and Wieniawski pieces may be fluff, if well performed fluff. No, the value of this
This is for fans of Tiana Lemnitz and Michael Bohnen only. We get highlights from the opera from a l936 Berlin performance sloppily led and
