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Erkel: Bank ban

Dan Davis

Ferenc Erkel (1810-93) is barely known outside Hungary, where he’s revered as the father of Hungarian music and the composer of the nation’s national anthem.

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Beethoven’s Fidelio

Robert Levine

This is a really well sung, nicely conceived, Classical reading of Beethoven’s great Fidelio. Lying somewhere between all of Furtwängler’s recordings and Klemperer’s monumental, darkly

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