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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
Volume 3 of Classico’s Carl Nielsen Edition continues its failure to produce recommendable performances of the major works. The Inextinguishable is an especially challenging work
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
Understandably, a prospective listener might regard this reissue with skepticism: after all, do we really need another Caruso compilation? In truth, though, these 44 selections
Ernst Pepping was born in 1901, the same year as Harry Partch, and Heinz Schubert’s 1908 birth year was the same as Elliott Carter’s. Without
If you like the vocal music of J.S. Bach, why not try a work by a contemporary whom Bach admired and whose style, although different
And you thought Hans Knappertsbusch was a slowpoke. Clocking in at a record five hours (on five CDs, no less, for an opera that usually
British composer Bernard Stevens (1916-83) based his one-act opera Shadow of the Glen on a work by Irish playwright J.M. Synge. Composed in 1978/79 after
