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Taped opening night at La Scala in 1969, this will be of interest mainly to fans of the young Placido Domingo and Raina Kabaivanska, a
This is the video version of the CDs I previously reviewed (type Q8682 in Search Reviews). The production is quite handsome. Pier Luigi Pizzi has
Director Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s re-interpretation of Wagner’s religious festival play is controversial. In notes accompanying this 3-DVD set, he says that “Parsifal is an endgame in
Conductor Diego Fasolis and his very capable forces do everything they can to breathe life into these two competently written though stylistically mediocre and often
This is a very fine performance of Shostakovich’s magnificent and moving “Babi Yar” symphony, more noteworthy for its overall cogency and coherence than for any
This recording is of Wagner’s first version of Dutchman, the version that was finished in Paris in 1841 in which the action is set in
You would not think that a part with as many low-lying and darkly exclamatory passages–not to mention one described by Lotte Lehmann as “more difficult
This 1997 recording of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor has been available for a long time, and given the competition before and after its
Here we have four late Shostakovich song cycles juxtaposed with two of the composer’s large-scale chamber masterpieces, plus two selections from the Op. 87 Preludes
What can you get for $22 these days? Well, in New York City that would buy you two movie tickets and maybe a candy bar.
