
The Catalan tenor Francisco Viñas (1863-1933) was a major presence on the international opera circuit in the years before World War I. (Collectors may be
Aficionados will want this release for the rarity of the material, interest in the performers, and the magic wrought by producer Ward Marston in making
Volume 2 of Ward Marston’s complete Leopold Godowsky edition picks up the chronological survey of the pianist’s acoustic Brunswick recordings begun in Volume 1. These
The penultimate volume of Josef Hofmann’s complete recordings begins with the pianist’s April 4, 1938 Philadelphia broadcast of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, led by Eugene
Mezzo-soprano Conchita Supervia’s recordings were all made within a five-year span–1927-32. Fortunately, she was at the height of her career at the time (she died
Corsican-born César Vezzani (1888-1951) was one of the last of the now-vanished breed of French dramatic tenors. This welcome Marston set, the second of a
The success of Marston Records’ reissues devoted to composer/pianist Ernst Levy’s commercial recordings from the 1950s has led to the first publication of live performances
Hailed by his peers as a keyboard perfectionist, Leopold Godowsky (1970-1938) supposedly played best in intimate settings but froze when it came to concerts and
Few of Jorge Bolet’s later studio recordings hint at the poetic impulse, communicative immediacy, and scintillation revealed in these previously unpublished live Chopin performances dating
This previously unreleased live broadcast transmission from the Teatro Colón on September 22, 1936 may be the earliest complete Parsifal extant. Its crowning glory lies