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Barbirolli’s Haffner Symphony offers a lively and stylish interpretation, full of warmth and energy, assuming you can accept cavernous 1967 Royal Albert Hall recorded sound
The Mahler is a sad case. Kindertotenlieder, here transposed up a minor third (presumably to accommodate the soprano range) audibly taxes Kirsten Flagstad’s apparently waning
Collectors who own EMI’s out-of-print edition of Reginald Goodall’s live Rhinegold need not acquire Chandos’ 24-bit remastering, which offers slight rather than major sonic improvement.
Contractual problems prevented Rafael Kubelik’s 1967 Bavarian Radio recording of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger from being released until its appearance on the Calig label several years
Although this performance emanates from two distinct venues and recording dates, the sound proves remarkably consistent. That’s no small feat. But the engineering still doesn’t
Vinyl mavens of the obsessive operatic kind may remember the Urania LP edition of this 1950 recording (whose cover is reproduced here), billed as the
No sooner than this 1950 Tristan makes its CD debut on Preiser than Archipel releases it too. In addition, Archipel claims its edition to be
This release features the world premiere recording of the König Enzio overture from Wagner’s incidental music for a drama by Ernst Raupach. Composed in 1832,
According to Myto’s booklet notes, this live 1951 Berlin State Opera Die Walküre was taped by German Radio for broadcast purposes but never transmitted in
Remastered for Philips’ 50 Great Recordings series, the orchestral image in Hans Knappertsbusch’s 1962 Bayreuth Parsifal seems brighter, more forward than before, and I detect
