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This, the final installment in the recently-discovered, first-ever stereo Ring […]
Siegfried launched Testament’s first-ever release of the 1955 Bayreuth Ring
This was the second release in the much-awaited, almost legendary
Das Rheingold marked the third installment of the so-called “missing”
Walter Gieseking’s commercial studio recordings of Beethoven’s G major and Schumann’s A minor concertos only hint at the energy and brio that these Cologne broadcast
Not quite hot-on-the-heels of the July 28, 1955 Götterdämmerung that triumphantly capped Decca’s long-buried stereo Bayreuth Ring cycle released by Testament comes an alternate recording
It’s amazing how different the Berlin Philharmonic sounds on this 1961 Beethoven Seventh from the one Karajan recorded around the same time for Deutsche Grammophon.
There are some wonderful things about this performance, most of them coming from the Tamino of Fritz Wunderlich, who lives up to his reputation as
Joseph Keilberth conducts Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 with a stern lyricism not unlike that found on George Szell’s Cleveland recording. Keilberth’s quick tempos, sensitive yet
The Dresden Staatskapelle is 450 years old (actually the date is meaningless: orchestras as we know them today have only been around for about a
