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This disc offers nearly 70 minutes of beguilingly pleasant music, beginning with George Butterworth, whose Two English Idylls, The Banks of Green Willow, and A
Recorded in 1971, when Tebaldi was just past her prime, this carefully selected group of Christmas and merely-gentle music is very low-key (in many ways)
Altough not as comprehensive as Placido Domingo’s Verdi aria collection on DG, Carlo Bergonzi’s less exhaustive Philips survey is greatly satisfying in its own right.
Beethoven expended little effort over arranging his Violin Concerto for piano. He left the orchestration intact, reproduced the solo part more or less verbatim, and
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
Lennox Berkeley was a very accomplished composer, but it’s not hard to understand why his music has failed to catch on in the way the
John Barbirolli’s posthumous reputation if anything has grown in recent years with the release of numerous live recordings and reissues. It’s easy to understand why:
Edmund Rubbra’s first four symphonies tend to be hit or miss affairs, and the Second is arguably the best of them. Owing to a resolutely
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 lovely disc features Arthur Grumiaux’s art at its most winning. In the G minor concerto he gives a passionate account of the introduction, leading
