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There are some wonderful things about this performance, most of them coming from the Tamino of Fritz Wunderlich, who lives up to his reputation as
Karl Böhm left a huge recorded legacy sharply focused on the central Austro-German classics and on 20th century heirs such as Berg and Strauss. For
If any one recorded Beethoven cycle stood out for gorgeous engineering, the prize certainly would go to Karl Böhm’s early-1970s versions with the Vienna Philharmonic
Valery Gergiev turns in a generally fine Symphonie fantastique, one that really heats up in the last two movements, as any good performance must. The
SACD multi-channel format neither adds nor detracts from this mediocre performance, which sounds just as badly balanced, texturally clogged, and slackly phrased no matter what
First let’s get the edition thing out of the way. Here is yet another “new critical edition” that purports to supplant the old critical edition–and
Let’s just say that Christian Thielemann puts the “hell” back into Ein Heldenleben. In fact, many juicy and not very nice words came to mind
Rock star Sting turns out to be an exceptionally lucid storyteller, making his rendition of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf quite enthralling. His knack for
While there is much to admire here–much–I am startled by the extraordinary press Anna Netrebko is getting. She has been called “a miracle”; it is
The first of what promises to be several boxed sets encompassing Clifford Curzon’s Decca recordings mixes familiar fare, rarities, and two previously unreleased Mozart concertos
