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Gigli made his debut in 1914 and began recording in 1918; the recordings on these CDs were made between 1931 and 1949. They are, in
After recital discs devoted to bel canto, French opera, and Berlioz, Roberto Alagna here tries to put an individual stamp on some very familiar tenor
About Vinogradov’s recorded performance of Lensky’s aria, this set’s annotator, Larry Friedman, writes, “Has it ever been done more poetically, more stylishly and with such
This performance, from Mexico City in July, 1951–in terrible sound, even for its time–shows Maria Callas a finer Aida than in her commercial recording, and
Taped live at three performances (or a rehearsal or two?) in Paris in 2001, the drawing card here clearly is Renée Fleming’s Manon. For the
There are many things to admire about this Tristan, not least the inspired leadership of Carlos Kleiber. He leads with an inner fire, a Böhm-like
This Trovatore is exciting, well-sung, interestingly led, faithful to the score, and involving; what it isn’t, is Italianate. No matter how hard the late Giuseppe
Even if this performance of Daphne didn’t have much to recommend it, this inexpensive set would be worth acquiring for the selection of nine orchestrated
This is the first recording of Samuel Barber’s superb Vanessa since the original cast recording in 1958. That one (on RCA, now unavailable) presented the
Matthias Weckmann was barely in his teens when his father Jacob realized the extent of his talents and sent him to study with Heinrich Schütz
