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The rediscovery of the music of Geirr Tveitt remains one of the more exciting things happening in the world of classical music recordings, and this
What we’re presented with here is a complete Gioconda from 1964 in Philadelphia with Franco Corelli, Mary Curtis-Verna, Mignon Dunn, and Cesare Bardelli, and 71
Recorded in October, 1961 in Berlin (the Rome Opera must have been on tour), this sonically fine recording is filled with some general excitement and
The recordings in this collection cover the period between 1947 and 1958 (you have to presume that the 1981 copyrights to a Fanciulla aria and
This performance was the (lip-synched) soundtrack for an RAI TV presentation of the opera, and it finds Franco Corelli not only in spectacularly fresh voice,
Billed as “Carl Orff’s Original Authorized Recording”, this 1973 performance was blown away by the similarly authorized Jochum on DG. The sound is good but
It really doesn’t matter whether Granville Bantock is writing music about ancient Greece, the life of Christ, Celtic, Islamic, or Hindu legend, or setting the
Despite strong competition from Mackerras/Fleming/Heppner, this Supraphon production remains the Rusalka of choice. Gabriela Benacková, whose purer, lighter voice is ideally suited to the unearthly
When Fritz Wunderlich died in a fall in 1966 at age 36 the opera world lost a masterful lyric tenor whose voice was tonally beautiful
There are plenty of good recordings of this opera on CD: two with Callas, one commercial production starring Caballé (with Pavarotti), and at least one
