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Decca’s 1950/51 Meistersinger was the first complete studio recording of a Wagner opera, and its virtues still may hold appeal for opera lovers. The sound
It must have been exciting for audience members attending Clifford Curzon’s Salzburg Festival debut on July 26, 1955 to hear the pianist speed through Brahms’
Among the Bayreuth Festival Parsifal recordings (official and otherwise) under Hans Knappertsbusch’s direction, this 1954 go-round is closer to the conductor’s weighty 1951 commercially issued
Beginning with a stodgy and gruff Academic Festival Overture with out-of-sync percussion and an out-of-tune orchestra, these Brahms performances have to rank among the more
Despite Living Stage’s claim that these “superb sound mono recordings” are presented in a “new remastering to 24 bit for high presence and greater spatial
At the outset let me say that Melodram now offers the best sounding incarnation yet of Hans Knappertsbusch’s live 1958 Bayreuth Festival Ring Cycle. The
The CD booklet brags that the Brahms is a “World Premiere on CD”, but it’s hard to imagine anyone anxiously anticipating this hopeless, dead-on-arrival performance.
Just for the record, Tahra offers the best sounding incarnation so far of the January 30, 1950 Berlin Philharmonic concert conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch. Under
It would be interesting to know, purely from the standpoint of understanding pathological phenomena, what (if any) criteria were used to choose the selections on
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
