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Aram Khachaturian recorded selections from his two famous ballets several times for various labels, but this Decca selection of excerpts has long enjoyed particular affection,
French soprano Régine Crespin’s voice was gigantic, and hard to capture on a recording. Indeed, there’s distortion here (and even a bit of pre-echo), but
Matthias Goerne’s live Winterreise is an improvement over his studio recording of Die schöne Müllerin, though it’s still marred by overinterpretation that, while apparently deeply
The world of Leopold Stokowski dips a toe into the great conductor’s Decca legacy, making this a useful introduction to Stokowski’s recordings for anyone curious
This oddly chosen program is worth having for Tasmin Little’s excellent account of the Violin Concerto under Mackerras, and for Kars’ appealing solo work in
Here is the recording that put Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony on the musical map back in 1980, now reissued in the new 24-bit,
Some might refer to these works as “minor” Rossini. On the contrary, if Orfeo (arguably) is juvenilia, it is fascinating and lovely juvenilia, and Le
As is now common knowledge, Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Leyla Gencer, Beverly Sills, and Marilyn Horne (among others) re-introduced the world to the bel canto
By now the glories of Juan Diego Florez’s voice and the way he uses it should be well known: a stunning agility wedded to sweetness;
Twelve of the 15 selections on this CD have been culled from previous releases. In all of them Fleming’s ravishing voice and technique are on
