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Volume Four of Naxos’ complete, chronological Caruso collection (how’s that for alliteration!) brings us to 1908-10. These were prime years for the legendary tenor, and
Besides the Act 1 finale and “Teneste le promessa…Addio del passato” from Traviata, which is taken from a 1973 film led by Lamberto Gardelli (with
This collection, excellently mastered by Ward Marston, presents the mature Caruso, recorded 1916-17. The voice had broadened by 1916 but had lost none of its
Begun and dropped by Weber in the very early 1820s and completed by Mahler in 1886 from sketches and other works by Weber (a song
Composed for Naples in 1819, La donna del lago, another of Rossini’s serious operas, is based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott, whose appeal
As the joke goes, this set is living proof that it really is a pity you can’t hum the scenery. The accompanying booklet and a
This Ring was taped live in Karlsruhe in 1993 and 1995, and while this isn’t news that will make true Wagnerians’ hearts beat faster, there
There have been only a handful of recordings of Michael Tippett’s oratorio A Child of Our Time–André Previn and the RPO, Colin Davis and the
An interesting aspect of Colin Davis’ 1993 Musikverein Romeo et Juliette is how he cajoles the Vienna Philharmonic (of all the world’s great orchestras, surely
Danish composer Hakon Børresen (1876-1954) wrote three symphonies, a violin concerto, ballet music, some chamber works, and an opera or two. Stylistically, he could have
