
At his best, Adrian Boult achieved an inevitability and naturalness […]
This is a fascinating Siegfried, that, while certainly not lacking in power, volume, or intensity, manages to come across as an almost chamber-like performance. Recorded
This new two-CD set contains two hours and 39 minutes of excerpts from the Met’s highly controversial, $16 million Ring Cycle. Without seeing “Le Machine”,
These recordings include the last that Stokowski made. They are,
For those of you who are tired of watching productions of this opera that are either inhabited by rats or feature Lohengrin and Elsa building
I had read such great things about these performances on an opera chat board when they were current (the opera was recorded in two sections
Reginald Goodall’s Bruckner Eighth operates at two levels: dead, and
Whenever Klemperer’s name comes up so do adjectives such as
How this driven, joyless bow-wow of a Schubert performance joined
Recorded on April 16, 1939, this note-complete second act of Tristan is completely new to my ears. The sound occasionally overloads at forte but otherwise