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Not too many years ago Max Bruch was close to being a “one-hit wonder” in the classical music lists, that hit being his G minor
This 86-minute, black-and-white, 1938 film of Gustave Charpentier’s opera Louise is of interest for several reasons. First, film buffs will revel in Abel Gance’s direction.
Mendelssohn has a reputation as the polite classicist among members of the first wave of German Romantic-era composers, and performers normally can’t go wrong in
No doubt, because of the conductor and esteemed performers involved, this new Messiah, recorded live in Vienna’s Musikvereinsaal in December 2004, will receive a high
This is essentially the same over-processed 1988 transfer of Herbert von Karajan’s 1947 Beethoven Ninth that appeared in EMI’s Great Recordings of the Century series.
Rodelinda was the third in a string of great operas Handel composed in 1724-25, Giulio Cesare and Tamerlano being the other two. Cesare and Tamerlano
There is something wonderfully blood-and-thunder about this performance, recorded on Oct 12, 1951. Vittorio Gui leads the type of performance you’d be thrilled with in
This disc offers about an hour’s worth of choice bits from Borodin’s Prince Igor. On one hand, we find the usual selections, including the ever-popular
The 100-minute, one-act Daphne was premiered in 1938 on a double bill with the composer’s Friedenstag. The two were performed together for a while but
This Bohème, studio recorded in 1952, is an interesting oddity. It is thoroughly idiomatic–the entire cast and conductor are Italian (less rare in the ’50s
