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This is a stumper: If you had a 46-year-old recording of a great Isolde in her prime and in one of her greatest roles, in
Fans of soprano Hildegard Behrens should flock to this set if they don’t already own it–it is her finest recording. She ideally captures the girl/woman
Götz Friedrich’s 1981 Elektra film sets Richard Strauss’ opera in a dark and dingy abandoned 20th-century factory populated by grungy denizens in psuedo-Greek garb. Elektra
Having practically waxed poetic recently about the Traviata from Madrid starring Norah Amsellem, I’m feeling a bit fickle: the one under consideration here, the hit
Notwithstanding a starry cast, this brightly lit reissue is Solti’s show, shared with a Vienna Philharmonic at the top of its form. His is a
This very generous Brahms collection has more complete works and less excerpts than some of the other titles in Deutsche Grammophon’s Panorama series. The program
The first thing you hear are the Third Symphony’s opening chords beautifully balanced, dramatically swelling. Then a glorious wall of sound fills your listening space,
The Vienna Philharmonic never has played Mahler particularly well, or with evident enthusiasm. It needs to be forced. Bernstein could get the orchestra to do
This production has real problems, even given the fact that La clemenza di Tito is an opera seria filled with stilted situations. The only characters
This is an exceptional Bruckner Eighth, make no mistake. Here’s why. Pierre Boulez does all of the things that a great Bruckner performance requires. First,
