Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
This new entrant in DG’s “The Originals Series” repackages new transfers of late-1960s versions of major works by Purcell with mixed results. The gem of
I believe that this was the first Rusalka ever recorded, in 1952. The spirit of the piece is brilliantly set forth, with conductor Jaroslav Krombholc
This is a very valuable recording, the only one of Verdi’s original, French version of what is better known as I vespri Siciliani. It was
Here are two groups of extended excerpts from Strauss’ Elektra, taped early and late in 1964 at the Deutschen Oper am Rhein. Their main appeal
There’s a lot of prettiness in this release of the first successful large-scale work by Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)–perhaps too much prettiness. The disc
The only reason for owning this previously unreleased, 1954 RAI recording of Verdi’s four-act version of Don Carlo is the King Philip of Cesare Siepi,
Musically, this is one of the least successful of Chandos’ Opera in English series. David Parry leads the work as if he’s not particularly attuned
James Levine leads a fleet and efficient Beethoven Seventh, with brisk tempos, crisp, tidy phrasing, and no repeats whatsoever. The Munich Philharmonic responds with playing
This oddity from Berlin in 1982 is more than worth a listen. Here we have a bunch of great singers, an always interesting conductor, and
Mendi & Keith Obadike’s The Sour Thunder is billed as an “internet opera”. Its premiere took place in two simultaneous performances by different casts in
