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This performance, captured live on October 5, 1937 in Leeds Town Hall, is the only document of Thomas Beecham conducting Beethoven’s monumental Missa solemnis, and
Here’s an intimate charmer of a Magic Flute for your consideration, recorded live in 1992 at the Ludwigsburg Festival. At first, the late Axel Manthey’s
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
In January, 1910 Enrico Caruso and fellow Metropolitan Opera cohorts Geraldine Farrar, Marcel Journet, Antonio Scotti, and Gabrielle Gilbert recorded substantial excerpts from Gounod’s Faust,
This DG Originals reissue includes Herbert von Karajan’s 1961 recording of the Mozart Requiem, with the welcome addition of a 1971 account of the Adagio
Nostalgia’s a dangerous thing. Like other collectors of a certain age I harbor fond memories of Vanguard BG-549, the monophonic LP that introduced me to
According to Myto’s booklet notes, this live 1951 Berlin State Opera Die Walküre was taped by German Radio for broadcast purposes but never transmitted in
Remastered for Philips’ 50 Great Recordings series, the orchestral image in Hans Knappertsbusch’s 1962 Bayreuth Parsifal seems brighter, more forward than before, and I detect
Oh joy. Another reissue of a reissue of a reissue. Decca’s previous release of the Dvorák Requiem included his Mass in D, while the Kodály
