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Having enjoyed this performance for many years in its LP incarnation, rehearing it on CD brings a measure of disappointment. All three soloists sing very
The voice: a light, limpid soprano, supremely sweet, tonally pure, and even throughout its range. The interpretations: elegantly stylish, totally idiomatic, superficially cool but always
This 1970 concert, recorded live in Tokyo by NHK radio engineers, is the stuff of which legends are made. Already fatally ill with the cancer
Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ never will have the wide audience appeal of the best-known oratorio-style works, but it’s full of fine music for soloists and
All the selections on this disc are undoubtedly familiar to Willem Mengelberg collectors. The main question, of course, is how Mark Obert-Thorn’s new transfers compare
This live Béatrice et Bénédict is Colin Davis’ third go at recording Berlioz’s beautiful “ugly duckling”. Davis’ first, released almost 40 years ago, was an
Collectors who can’t locate RCA’s reissue of Toscanini’s justly fabled Berlioz Roméo et Juliette with the NBC Symphony (the two-part broadcast of February 9 &
This 1963 Symphonie fantastique is actually the same as Bernstein’s Royal Edition performance (though in significantly finer sound), which claims to be his marginally tamer
The headliner in Testament’s Berlioz/André Cluytens disc–part of its excellent series of reissues of the great conductor’s recordings–is the conductor’s first, 1955 reading of the
It’s a pity that Bruno Walter never had a chance to make a stereo recording of the Symphonie fantastique: it was one of his signature
