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This is an outstanding disc, particularly a showcase for the talents of tenor Toby Spence and the excellent players of the Scottish Ensemble. I don’t
Superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli’s first staged portrayal of Werther in Michigan a few years ago was received with decidedly mixed reviews: most observers felt it
This set has one thing going for it that is enormously impressive: the Isolde of German soprano Hanne-Lore Kuhse. Hardly a household name, Kuhse was
Billed as the “unabridged edition of the original version” of this opera, the only places on this recording I can find any significant differences are
Recorded live in 1977 at the Martina Franca Festival, this set is recommended to fans of Grace Bumbry and/or those who already own six recordings
If you love Ian Bostridge in German lied, you can stop reading here. Go out, buy the disc, and enjoy. But I, and the handful
Romanian soprano Mariana Nicolescu was a figure on the international opera scene throughout the late ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s; she last appeared at the Metropolitan
This is the third–and best–of Furtwängler’s recordings of Don Giovanni. The other two–a 1950 performance with Tito Gobbi as the Don, and one from 1954
It’s hard to find anything good to say about Stalin, but that monster must have been a discerning critic of singers, since his favorite Bolshoi
Graham Johnson is the expert accompanist, annotator, and major domo of what will be a four-volume series of Fauré’s complete songs, of which this is
