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Rostropovich’s Lady Macbeth is truly one of the “Great Recordings of the Century”. This first-ever and still best recording of Shostakovich’s operatic masterpiece was a
Nigel Kennedy has his first name back for this Vivaldi remake, and in every respect it is a serious and very well done project, a
If any song cycle is associated with a male protagonist, it’s Schubert’s Winterreise, so a female singer may take some getting used to. Other women
It’s a wonder we don’t get more recordings of Poulenc’s concertos, but why complain when the three on this disc, dating from 1957 and 1961,
Ferenc Fricsay’s star shone briefly–for a decade-and-a-half–after World War II, when he scored successes in Berlin and Salzburg and recorded for DG. However, this entry
The recordings in this collection cover the period between 1947 and 1958 (you have to presume that the 1981 copyrights to a Fanciulla aria and
Compared to many of his contemporaries, much of Artur Rodzinski’s long, fruitful career is relatively undocumented on CD, so this is a welcome release. In
This well-filled disc contains extremely distinguished performances of all three works, particularly the Lalo, a piece that so often winds up being merely annoying but
When Fritz Wunderlich died in a fall in 1966 at age 36 the opera world lost a masterful lyric tenor whose voice was tonally beautiful
There are plenty of good recordings of this opera on CD: two with Callas, one commercial production starring Caballé (with Pavarotti), and at least one
