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Cathedral recordings have a way of lending a disembodied quality to the music that can make the performance sound as if it were taking place
The extent to which a composer’s own recorded interpretations of his works cast a pall on future versions, both live and on disc, forms one
The Decca Singers volume devoted to Joan Sutherland has many of the positives and negatives common to others in the series. On the plus side
Rehearsed by Reginald Goodall, this slow, dark-hued, un-Romantic, un-sentimental, un-optimistic reading of what is normally the Ring’s most chipper act is a fascinating study. Assuring
Perhaps the main reason you’d want this disc would be as a souvenir of the Otto Klemperer Memorial Concert, held on January 14, 1974 (assuming,
This grotesque sounding (stereo!!!) performance, recorded in the impossibly reverberant acoustic of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, need not detain us long. There is no orchestra.
Some of the music on this disc has been kicking around various pirate labels for a while, and none of it need trouble anyone but
Three great violinists taped Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Op. 61 at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw during the early 1970s. On two occasions, the Concertgebouw Orchestra played under
George Szell’s excellent Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony, long absent from the catalog, has made a welcome return on several different labels, most recently Universal’s not overwhelmingly
Otto Klemperer’s 1968 recording of Wagner’s Flying Dutchman (on EMI) has long been considered a classic. Using the three-act version, Klemperer elicited performances from the
