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I believe that this was the first Rusalka ever recorded, in 1952. The spirit of the piece is brilliantly set forth, with conductor Jaroslav Krombholc
Here are two groups of extended excerpts from Strauss’ Elektra, taped early and late in 1964 at the Deutschen Oper am Rhein. Their main appeal
This all-Schumann recital documents Brigitte Fassbaender’s first Salzburg Festival Liederabend in August, 1977, with artistic results that will enchant her admirers and intermittently please others.
There’s a lot of prettiness in this release of the first successful large-scale work by Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)–perhaps too much prettiness. The disc
Obviously, EMI wanted this recording to complete its Rattle Mahler cycle–heaven knows why, because it’s the least interesting, least insightful, most poorly played and worst-recorded
This live Mahler Symphony No. 8, made the same month as Rafael Kubelik’s recording for DG, has all of the musicality of his studio effort,
Dvorák wrote nearly 100 songs, and you would think that singers would show some interest in classical music’s greatest tunesmith after Schubert. Unfortunately several factors
The only reason for owning this previously unreleased, 1954 RAI recording of Verdi’s four-act version of Don Carlo is the King Philip of Cesare Siepi,
During the past decade or so, interest in Baroque music composed and/or performed in South American cities–particularly the cathedrals–has inspired a number of recordings. This
Musically, this is one of the least successful of Chandos’ Opera in English series. David Parry leads the work as if he’s not particularly attuned
