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Your guide to classical music online
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In 1967 and 1969, en route to becoming the leading soprano of the 1970s, Montserrat Caballé recorded a trio of “rarity” discs for RCA, each
This version of the Orfeo legend was composed by Ferdinando Bertoni in 1776 at the behest of the singer who had created the title role
RCA’s Leontyne Price collection offers a generous sampling of the various Puccini roles she performed on stage as well as those she sang only in
Beverly Sills has said that Elizabeth I in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux was the role that took 10 years off her career, and indeed, it’s a
This belongs in the pantheon of great opera recordings. In 1970 when the performance was taped, Beverly Sills had only sung the role that eventually
This was recorded at Beverly Sills’ peak, in 1970. (She had only sung Elizabeth in Roberto Devereux a handful of times and it had yet
Rostropovich’s Lady Macbeth is truly one of the “Great Recordings of the Century”. This first-ever and still best recording of Shostakovich’s operatic masterpiece was a
This is a strangely unsatisfying performance. The playing of Sir Neville’s Academy is exemplary, with perfect articulation in the string figures and spicy winds–and aside
Despite Agnes Baltsa’s inability to sound fragile–as Cinderella at least occasionally ought to–this is a successful, witty performance. Baltsa can bully, but when she draws
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