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Archipel des solitudes is a gorgeous setting for mezzo-soprano, chorus, and orchestra of some very evocative poetry by Gilles Gourdon. Here’s a sample: “The spider,
Although this performance emanates from two distinct venues and recording dates, the sound proves remarkably consistent. That’s no small feat. But the engineering still doesn’t
Vinyl mavens of the obsessive operatic kind may remember the Urania LP edition of this 1950 recording (whose cover is reproduced here), billed as the
No sooner than this 1950 Tristan makes its CD debut on Preiser than Archipel releases it too. In addition, Archipel claims its edition to be
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
It would seem whimsical to wish for a recording of a 19th century operatic repertory standard conducted by its composer, yet that’s exactly what we
Some composer’s shouldn’t do hell. Berlioz? Now he did hell! Liszt? He couldn’t do anything but hell; his heaven was insipid. But Granados? Forget it.
Perhaps through all the down-scaling going on at major record companies, song-recitalists will prove to be the most fortunate, what with their relatively inexpensive production
