
What an incredible Christmas Eve concert! On December 24th, 1946, at New York’s Rockefeller Center, Toscanini conducted Beethoven and Wagner with savage energy. In the
Hans von Bulow described Wagner’s early Rienzi as “Meyerbeer’s best opera”. There’s more than a kernel of truth to this ironic quip. The work’s five
Listening to this amazing live 1978 Tristan und Isolde from La Scala conjures up an image of Wagner possessed at the piano, feverishly scribbling notes
This two-CD set is a composite of at least three LPs as well as a couple of bonuses, and fills a particular gap in the
Orchestral excerpts from Wagner’s music dramas occupied a central position in Toscanini’s concert repertoire. The conductor’s hard-core fans, to be sure, might disparage the inclusion
Max Reger’s Wagner arrangements for two pianos lack the coloristic variety of the orchestral originals, yet they make it possible for the composer’s motivic complexities
Between 1927 and 1930, the Columbia label embarked on an ambitious Wagner series, recorded under studio conditions in the Bayreuther Festspielhaus. The 1928 Tristan is
Best known for his gripping conducting in the fabled EMI Callas/La Scala Tosca, Victor de Sabata made pitifully few discs of purely orchestral repertoire, all
Teldec’s two Art of Conducting videos give merely a hint of the treasures still locked in the vaults of film archives and TV stations. Thanks
Otto Klemperer’s 1968 recording of Wagner’s Flying Dutchman (on EMI) has long been considered a classic. Using the three-act version, Klemperer elicited performances from the
Notifications