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John Eliot Gardiner returns with another release in his Bach cantata series. As with some of the others, this one is not a new recording
If P.D.Q. Bach’s take on this elusive work resulted in the “Missa Hilarious” then Norrington’s take on a work that Wilhelm Furtwängler reputedly considered “unperformable”
Once again, Chandos scores big with this release of two obscure works of Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921). Both recordings have the hallmarks of Chandos engineering: a
So just who is Armin Ude? Good question! There’s not a word about him in the CD booklet. But then, given the disc’s title, this
Peter Heise (1830-79) was born in Denmark and was intended by his family to become a lawyer, but after graduating with high marks he chose
Manon has seen happy days on record: In the 1950s Victoria de los Angeles personified Massenet’s complicated heroine; Beverly Sills was magnificent and multifaceted in
Il trovatore is a notoriously difficult opera to cast these days: Singers with true Verdi voices are scarce and those who might have the equipment
Rossini had composed so much music and had heard so much singing by 1829 that he simply gave up composing for the stage altogether. But
Where has this opera been hiding? Well, to answer my own question, it was premiered in Paris in 1910, roamed Naples, Rome, Trieste and Brussels
As with Karajan and Böhm’s first recorded Magic Flutes, and the pioneering Beecham set, Klemperer’s 1964 EMI version includes the arias and ensembles only, omitting
