Carlos Kleiber’s Beethoven Seventh and the first of Herbert von Karajan’s three Strauss Don Quixotes (with cellist Pierre Fournier portraying the befuddled Knight) are time-honored
This exciting, fun-filled Fledermaus always has had one fatal flaw, which I will get to in a moment. On the plus side are Carlos Kleiber’s
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