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There’s a curious rule that the best performances of the […]
Precisely why it has taken 20 years for this production from the Berlin State Opera to appear on DVD is anyone’s guess, but along with
Wagner’s Symphony in C is such a piece of junk
This Parsifal is beautiful, well-sung, exquisitely recorded, and overall, superficial. I never thought I’d complain much about this opera being performed too quickly, but Marek
You want to like this beautifully recorded Meistersinger, and there’s nothing really wrong with it: Marek Janowski knows the piece and clearly loves it, and
Director Martin Kusej has been responsible for one of the worst Don Giovannis I’ve ever seen (Salzburg, 2006–Decca DVD) and the best Lady Macbeth of
I was very taken with the Walküre from this same source, praising in particular the conducting of Simone Young. Again here, in the Cycle’s final
In a recent lecture, Liszt biographer Alan Walker explained how Liszt essentially invented the piano recital, with the idea that a program should have a
Remember when recordings of Parsifal were rare? There were a handful of Knas, then Solti, Barenboim, Karajan, and Kubelik. Now every Tom, Dick, Gergiev, and
Whatever you think of his operas (works of all-encompassing genius, or long-winded, tedious trash-troves), there’s little disputing that, as evidenced by this collection from Edo
