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About the time I started collecting LPs, everyone was agog over Toscanini’s Verdi Requiem and Te Deum. The transfers were so bad you couldn’t prove
This is exactly the kind of recording made for Arkivmusic.com’s “on demand” program. Cherubini’s quartets are fine works; they have always been respected but never
These are smooth, cultured performances featuring lively tempos in the overtures and in the outer movements of the symphony, along with a graciously singing account
This is a fine rarity from a composer whose operatic output is usually known only for Medea, which became burnt in the public’s imagination through
Volume 7 of Profil’s Günter Wand Edition finds the conductor traveling far afield from his standard repertoire (Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, and Bruckner). He’s mostly able
This over-the-top chunk of verismo may require many things, but subtlety is not one of them. And it’s a good thing, too, since this live,
The Verdi Requiem is one of those awe-inspiring works that rarely gets a performance matching its greatness. It certainly doesn’t get it in Riccardo Muti’s
This was Maria Callas’ first undertaking of Cherubini’s Medea, and in 1953 she had the voice and strength to make this impossible role sound practically
Venice’s Teatro la Fenice has seen better nights than December 15, 1968, when it staged this performance of Cherubini’s Medea, complete with traditional cuts. As
Is anyone pining for Boult’s Schubert Ninth? He recorded the work several times commercially, versions that at no point challenged the best of the competition,
