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Beginning with a stodgy and gruff Academic Festival Overture with out-of-sync percussion and an out-of-tune orchestra, these Brahms performances have to rank among the more
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s second two-disc tribute to Rafael Kubelik showcases its erstwhile music director in repertoire both familiar and rare to his posthumously expanding
In Urania’s 24-bit/96 kHz transfer the murky but still listenable source tape for Herbert von Karajan’s 1951 Bayreuth Das Rheingold gains a pinch of high-end
What a pity! It would be wonderful to report that this newly found (at least to me) Rheingold from 1947, led by Erich Kleiber at
These days Bruno Walter is best known for his Columbia Symphony stereo recordings, most of which were made when he was in his 80s and
At the outset let me say that Melodram now offers the best sounding incarnation yet of Hans Knappertsbusch’s live 1958 Bayreuth Festival Ring Cycle. The
For the most part, this is the Dresden version of Tannhäuser, although the sirens’ song after the overture borrows from the Paris edition. (For the
Erich Leinsdorf’s Wagner arrangements take us through the whole of the Ring cycle in just 48 minutes (well, almost, as he leaves out Rheingold). By
As Guild’s excellent program notes accurately explain, the Good Friday April 15, 1938 Metropolitan Opera broadcast performance of Wagner’s Parsifal has been known to vocal
Wagner mavens with a nose for vintage opera broadcasts may have encountered this splendid Siegfried, aired January 30, 1937 live from the Metropolitan Opera, via
