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This was Maria Callas’ first studio-recorded Norma, and it remains a formidable performance. If it doesn’t quite have the emotional shadings of her 1960 EMI
There is rapture in every measure of Carlos Kleiber’s reading of this score, sometimes of the transcendent, gentle type, sometimes of the manic, ravishing sort.
Any recording by the St. Olaf Choir is worth attention, and although the catalog is hardly desperate for another Mozart Requiem, this program offers an
This disc offers Leonard Bernstein in some quite rare (at least for him, on disc) operatic repertoire. Given his flair for the dramatic, it’s not
This Gala Concert, taped in Auckland in February, 2004, is one of those hodge-podge collections of arias and duets (too few of the latter) designed
Charming, functional, well-crafted, tuneful–all of these describe the music in the seven cantatas performed on this fine recording. Of course, Dietrich Buxtehude is best known
This newest addition to Opera Rara’s series of recordings of 19th-century salon music is as delightful as its predecessors. Unlike the other volumes, this one
Although Ton Koopman’s fine Bach cantata series, begun in the mid-1990s, was abandoned by Warner Classics/Erato in 2001, the conductor managed to resume the 22-volume
In the early 1950s Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau began what would become a long and distinguished career as one of his generation’s foremost Bach interpreters. By 1981,
In evaluating a Bach cantata recording, there are so many variables to consider–programming choices; quality and type of soloists; tempos and balances among soloists, orchestra,
