STRAUSS II; JOHANN

THE ONLY OPERETTA ALBUM YOU’LL EVER NEED

Robert Levine

What to do with this? Granted, the selections practically live up to the album’s title, especially if you don’t particularly like operetta and only want

Ernst Levy, Vol. 2

Jed Distler

During his tenure as the New Yorker’s classical music correspondent in the 1970s Andrew Porter made a special plea for the reissue of Ernst Levy’s

1929 abridged Fledermaus C

Robert Levine

After a nicely paced overture led by Richard Tauber recorded in 1944, this 1929 set of excerpts from Johann Strauss Jr.’s greatest operetta settles into

THE GREAT MOMENTS FROM DIE FLEDERMAUS

Robert Levine

This 50 minutes of Fledermaus in a mediocre English translation is not apt to genuinely please anyone except fans of Anna Moffo, who delivers a

MORITZ ROSENTHAL: THE COMPLETE AMERICAN RECORDINGS

Jed Distler

Liszt pupil Moritz Rosenthal was in his late 60s when he made his first recordings in 1928. By this time, a softer expressive palette divided

Strauss, Jr.

Robert Levine

Operetta fans should race to buy this one-of-a-kind performance of this fluffy masterwork of Johann Strauss, Jr.’s, recorded just before World War II in Berlin.