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The first thing you notice about this live 1942 performance is the unusually vivid sound, which likely derives from an early, experimental tape source. While
These recordings, made in 1947 and 1948, have been available before but never as a compilation and never in such decent sound. What we have
Friedenstag is probably Richard Strauss’ least successful mature opera. Premiered in l938 in Dresden, it was first performed in Vienna in 1939 with Hitler in
This passionate reading of Massenet’s sob-story goes straight to the top of the list of recorded Werthers. The recent Kasarova-Vargas BMG release was handsomely Classical;
This is a really well sung, nicely conceived, Classical reading of Beethoven’s great Fidelio. Lying somewhere between all of Furtwängler’s recordings and Klemperer’s monumental, darkly
Karl Muck (1859-1940) was chiefly regarded as a Wagner specialist, particularly for his conducting of Parsifal. All the recordings he made from the opera are
Opera doesn’t come any more Romantic (with an uppercase R) than Massenet’s Werther; indeed the hero’s suicide is so textbook-tortured-poet-in-unrequited-love-situation that were the opera not
Il Corsaro is Verdi’s 12th opera (13th if you count Jerusalem, the revision of I Lombardi), and it is tied with Alzira as his least
This 50 minutes of Fledermaus in a mediocre English translation is not apt to genuinely please anyone except fans of Anna Moffo, who delivers a
Herbert von Karajan’s 1961 Wiener Staatsoper production of Parsifal caused quite a stir, not only for his idiosyncratic stage directing and lighting, but for employing
