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This set offers a wonderfully apt summation of the art of one of the most inquisitive, intelligent, talented, and unflaggingly musical conductors of the 20th
My count may be slightly off, but there are approximately seven separate recorded performances of La traviata starring Maria Callas, all but one taken from
DG reissues its late-1980s Levine/Met Ring cycle as a budget-priced, space-saving boxed set, providing serious competition for similarly packaged editions of Wagner’s Der Ring des
This is such attractive, pleasant music–I have to partly agree with some contemporary critics who apparently “complained” that Haydn’s late Masses (including these two) were
This Shostakovich Fourteenth ideally captures the music’s edgy, mournful, and beatific moods. Bass Piotr Migunov sounds appropriately ghostly in De Profundis, and delightfully rude in
Here’s the first in a projected 13-volume series of the complete recordings of the legendary bass, a project that promises to be a recording landmark.
Arbiter’s Chaliapin series continues with Volume 2, which includes recordings made by the great Russian basso between 1908 and 1911. There’s an archival aspect to
Arbiter’s complete Chaliapin series continues with Vol. 4, covering the great basso’s song recordings made between 1913-1921, including unpublished pressings. The voice itself remains what
Feodor Chaliapin’s imposing bass voice and larger-than-life artistry have been the subject of many CD reissues of varying quality. However, the present two-disc set offers
Opera never has shown its contrasts more than in this Rigoletto from the Sächsische Staatskapelle in Dresden. The production is full of harsh conflicts, which
