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This is a truly mediocre live performance (the audience applauds politely at times) of Rossini’s delightful sixth opera. It doesn’t require the finest of singing
This is the soundtrack to the 1947 English film of Offenbach’s great work. It’s sung in English in an okay translation, the score is cut
For those who pay attention to and care about these things, this is the Robert Levin edition of Mozart’s beloved and nearly-recorded-to-its-own-death Requiem. How many
Numerous incarnations of the 1952 Karajan/Bayreuth Tristan have danced in and out of circulation on CD. Sonically speaking, it’s on par with other archival Bayreuth
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
For Guild’s reissue of Wagner’s Das Rheingold as performed by the Metropolitan Opera forces on tour in Boston on April 3, 1937, restoration engineer Richard
At long last Decca reissues Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt’s Vienna Philharmonic Beethoven cycle from the 1960s in full, together with the conductor’s accounts of the concertos, featuring
Collectors who can’t locate RCA’s reissue of Toscanini’s justly fabled Berlioz Roméo et Juliette with the NBC Symphony (the two-part broadcast of February 9 &
This is probably the cleanest transfer available of this Glyndebourne Festival Figaro, recorded in 1934 and 1935. It always was more interesting as a document
The plot of this “Bizarre Deception” (a translation of the title) concerns the growing love between book-loving Ernestina and her tutor, Ermanno, which is being
