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The Living Stereo SACDs are here, and they sound fabulous. Here is a case in point. Careful remastering outclasses all previous releases of this music,
Yes, there once was a time when Gianni Schicchi and Salome were considered complementary enough to make a double bill at the opera. It must
Recorded hot on the heels of his landmark Gold Medal victory in the first Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition, the 23-year-old Van Cliburn’s million-selling 1958 Tchaikovsky First
Although RCA’s 1954 Rubinstein/Reiner Brahms First Concerto originally appeared in mono, an experimental stereo version surfaced in the late 1970s, offering a fuller, more three-dimensional
Can these magnificent-sounding, scintillatingly executed 1954 benchmarks in the annals of recorded Strauss really be a half-century old? They haven’t dated a bit, except for
This performance, recorded on November 14, 1955, was part of the four-week festival that took place at the Vienna State Opera celebrating its reopening after
There’s little to add to the well-deserved accolades these cathartic, dazzlingly executed Strauss excerpts have garnered over the years. Because the original recordings stem from
This Met broadcast of Verdi’s Falstaff from 1949 has a great deal to recommend it. Judging by the copious amount of audience laughter, the production
Although it seems to have flown largely under the radar as far as important Reiner recordings go, this is an excellent Mahler Fourth, stunningly recorded
These are stunning performances! Although Fritz Reiner didn’t have at his disposal the scholarly editions of this music that are currently in favor, it’s hard
