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This performance, taped live in Munich in 1979, is wonderfully sung and excitingly led by Riccardo Muti. Anna Tomowa-Sintow is a big-voiced, dramatically right Aida
This performance of Scheherazade remains one of the finer modern versions, sumptuous as might be expected from Philadelphia, but with an extra rhythmic edge thanks
This re-release of late-1980s recordings of Brahms symphonies can best be summed up as a missed opportunity for both the Philadelphia Orchestra and its then-music
No one would have guessed that the world needed another recording of Il trovatore, since there are more than two dozen available, of which a
Most newcomers appreciate some form of listening guide to Stravinsky’s ballets, and the absence of music notes and recording data often is a downside with
This new Manon Lescaut can stand high with the old Callas/di Stefano and it’s in glorious sound to boot. Taped live at La Scala during
The Fourth Symphony was a high point in Riccardo Muti’s fine Tchaikovsky Symphony cycle with the Philharmonia Orchestra, recorded in the late 1970s. Muti’s Philadelphia
The CD booklet for this release refers to Nino Rota as an “old-fashioned composer” and one who had the “courage to go his own way
Luciano Pavarotti very rarely sang the role of Arturo in I puritani. Next to Elvino in Sonnambula and Arnold in William Tell, it probably is
This 70 minutes of a 1987 recording of The Marriage of Figaro offers both of the Countess’ arias, the Count’s, two of Figaro’s, both of
