
Violin enthusiasts shouldn’t pass up this opportunity to hear two of the 20th century’s greatest performers, Joanna Martzy and Erica Morini, on this DG Originals
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
If the Annie Fischer and Otto Klemperer Liszt and Schumann concerto collaborations for EMI had their touchy moments, their live 1956 Mozart K. 482 is
Recorded in 1958, this Don Giovanni’s prime attraction is Ferenc Fricsay’s crisp, forward-moving conducting. The tempos are swift, almost as though Fricsay can’t wait to
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
These performances, now 40-ish years old, are still delightfully fresh; and frankly, despite all of the scholarship that has gone on since and the subsequent
This performance of Don Carlos, recorded live in Berlin in 1948 and sung in German, will be of interest only to fans of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,