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Let’s just say that Christian Thielemann puts the “hell” back into Ein Heldenleben. In fact, many juicy and not very nice words came to mind
In celebration of James Levine’s 60th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon has assembled a handsome collection of the conductor’s recordings featuring the four orchestras with which he
This quasi-legendary performance presents the opera with a few cuts in each act, and with a decidedly–and very welcome–sense of comedy without slapstick. Szell’s pacing
There’s something wonderfully clean about this recording of Rosenkavalier. Edo de Waart leads with an absolute absence of affectation, relying on the charm inherent in
Wonderful though Rudolf Kempe’s 1970s Dresden Staaskapelle recordings of Strauss’ Don Quixote and Till Eulenspiegel may be, his earlier 1958 Berlin Philharmonic versions are better.
Semyon Bychkov, who seemed to disappear after a handful of high-profile and highly variable Philips releases in the 1990s (a pretty decent Eugene Onegin, a
It’s so satisfying when an historical issue has some merit beyond the fact of its mere existence, or has the potential to appeal to an
This is a strange set. Taped lived and then fixed-up in the studio in 1988, it presents the opera as almost “pretty,” clearly a choice
This well-filled double-disc Preiser set focuses on Maria Cebotari’s radio recordings made in 1942 and 1943, with three exceptions. She was only 32 at the
This disc features a very mellow and beautiful rendition of Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs. Jane Eaglen’s soft-toned yet voluminous voice floats just above the
