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The best thing about this September 16, 1954 concert is Thomas Beecham’s hilarious speech preceding the lovely encore performance of Massenet’s Last Sleep of the
This 1971 recording of Bizet’s C major symphony under Jean Martinon has seldom been out of circulation during the past three decades. It’s an estimably
Georges Prêtre’s Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 contains reams of pretty playing, ravishing detail, and full-throated orchestral sonorities at climactic junctures. Ideally, we want
Maazel’s razor sharp, brilliant, and somewhat clipped delivery of Bizet’s L’Arlésienne and Jeux d’enfants Suites has the music sounding almost like one of Poulenc’s or
Adrian Boult’s almost exclusive dedication to the music of his native England, in which he demonstrated a very real and unique authority, robbed music lovers
Almost everyone knows Bizet’s L’Arlesienne from the two suites arranged from the incidental music he composed for the play in 1872. What is not generally
This performance is peculiar, even by conductor Herbert von Karajan’s standards. The good news is that it stars three singers who probably were the world’s
Czech soprano Emmy Destinn’s stature as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century’s first decades could hardly be more substantiated than by her
Recorded in 1911 for Pathé, this first-ever recorded Carmen in French (it was proceded by a German version with Emmy Destin in the title role)
