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This nearly-50-year-old performance still retains its status as a “classic”, and the digital remastering that would appear to be the raison d’etre for its current
Vaughan Williams’ “Falstaff” opera probably will never become a repertory staple owing to its relentlessly undramatic character. It has all of the local color that
Here’s yet another reissue of Kurt Masur’s 1973 Beethoven Ninth, this time as a single budget-priced disc. It’s nothing special. For starters, the Allegro ma
If you like the vocal music of J.S. Bach, why not try a work by a contemporary whom Bach admired and whose style, although different
And you thought Hans Knappertsbusch was a slowpoke. Clocking in at a record five hours (on five CDs, no less, for an opera that usually
British composer Bernard Stevens (1916-83) based his one-act opera Shadow of the Glen on a work by Irish playwright J.M. Synge. Composed in 1978/79 after
The cover of Preiser’s “Alexander Kipnis in Russian Arias and Songs” depicts the great basso in a dramatic pose from his best-known role, Boris Godounov.
This is a recording of opening night at La Scala in 1962, a performance whose virtues have been enhanced by the passage of time. It’s
Thomas Beecham was a master of French Romantic style. His Faust moves like the wind but breathes with a natural ease, full of phrasing that
Hans Knappertsbusch’s Fidelio had the misfortune (or good fortune, depending on your point of view) to appear about the same time as Klemperer’s superior EMI
