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Given that Testament has re-released its extraordinary, excellent-sounding 1955 Bayreuth Ring cycle as an attractively priced boxed set, it seems strange for the label to
This is the second installment in Chandos’ reissue of Reginald Goodall’s Ring Cycle, originally issued by EMI and sung in Andrew Porter’s excellent, immediately intelligible
Chandos and Neeme Järvi return to scenes of former glory in this latest outing from the RSNO. Henk de Vlieger’s Wagner “Adventure” was recorded by
I guess that Ring Cycles fall into categories: the tense and intense (Clemens Krauss, Karl Böhm, Joseph Keilberth, Pierre Boulez); epic, broad, and architectural (Wilhelm
Just as the Nikolaus Lehnhoff/Kent Nagano Parsifal is now the finest available on DVD, so has the same team scored brilliantly with this Lohengrin. Taped
Deutsche Grammophon’s Carlos Kleiber tribute winningly pairs two of the late conductor’s finest performances. The Schubert is unique for its classical drive, contour, and phrasing,
The previous three installments in the State Opera of South Australia’s 2004 live Ring cycle hold considerable allure by way of opulent, vividly detailed surround
Drastic re-settings of operas must have an internal logic or they’re merely controversial, experimental, irritating, or all three. Peter Konwitschny’s inventive Lohengrin, seen on this
This sizzler of a Die Walküre, one of the finest of the opera’s many vintage broadcasts from the Met stage, has everything going for it.
No commercially available studio versions of Die Meistersinger in stereo were available until Herbert von Karajan’s 1970 Dresden performance, a “Great Recording of the Century”
