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This Met broadcast of Verdi’s Falstaff from 1949 has a great deal to recommend it. Judging by the copious amount of audience laughter, the production
This was recorded in 1996 in front of a live audience that either was made up of fewer than three people or a larger group,
Rued Langgaard’s Antikrist is fabulous–a genuine, undiscovered, eccentric masterpiece. Of course, it helps that the composer was basically out of his mind, poor guy, and
This Bohème, studio recorded in 1952, is an interesting oddity. It is thoroughly idiomatic–the entire cast and conductor are Italian (less rare in the ’50s
This is a great performance of Massenet’s maudlin melodrama. In 1980, when it was recorded, José Carreras was only a few years past his prime,
In his Rendering, Luciano Berio takes Schubert’s incomplete Symphony No. 10 as a starting point, interspersing the sketches with his own trademark modernist devices: tonal
Listeners familiar with the 1966 recording of this opera, also from Bayreuth and featuring three of the same main players–Nilsson, Windgassen, and Waechter–will have an
The “making of” in this case refers not to Wagner’s Ring itself, but to the famous Patrice Chéreau production that marked the Bayreuth Festival’s centenary
Listeners accustomed to deliberate and devotional interpretations of Wagner’s Parsifal are in for something completely different here. Although the booklet notes liken Herbert Kegel’s unusually
This disc completes Marin Alsop’s Samuel Barber orchestral music traversal for Naxos. Overall, it is a distinguished collection, and although this wrap-up falters a bit,
