
Back in the 70s an article appeared in the New […]
Ever wanted to hear “The Ride of the Valkyries” played
It must not have been easy for Sony BMG to
Complete recordings of Die Walküre, the most popular opera from Richard Wagner’s Ring, can be stacked into a mountain. This one is conducted by the
This should clinch it: Jonas Kaufmann is the pre-eminent Wagner tenor of this generation. (Slated to sing Manrico soon, and judging from his Werther, he
As readers of this type of thing know, I genuinely admired the Siegfried from this same source, and I feel just as strongly about this
Deutsche Grammophon’s 43-CD survey of Richard Wagner’s complete operas may
Originally released on Delos in the late 1980s and early ’90s, these recordings have held up quite well sonically, sounding today more or less newly-minted.
Munch’s recordings with the Boston Symphony constitute an “era,” and
Albert Baron de l’Espée had two obsessions: organs, and Wagner.