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This was the first Traviata I ever owned and I practically memorized it. I saw Anna Moffo on stage and adored her–she seemed so right
Virgil Thomson accurately predicted that as a composer he would best be remembered for his two operatic collaborations with Gertrude Stein. Their 1928 Four Saints
Peter Serkin made three all-Chopin albums for RCA Victor, reissued in Japan in a two-CD set, now available to American collectors by way of Arkivmusic.com’s
Having enjoyed David Zinman’s Mahler cycle to date, I came to this release with high expectations. What a disappointment! This is a lame, undercharacterized performance.
Arkivmusic.com’s “on demand” reprint program now embraces Japanese RCA reissues, many of which contain material otherwise unavailable on CD in the United States, such as
Prior to his tragic death in a plane crash on October 29, 1953 at age 31, pianist William Kapell toured Australia for three months, playing
This collection brilliantly showcases Rosza’s strengths, which ranged from historical pageants like Ivanhoe, fantasy epics like Knights of the Round Table, The Thief of Baghdad,
This is a far more imposing Symphonie fantastique than the one Ormandy recorded earlier for Sony (type Q4961 in Search Reviews). Here the Philadelphia Orchestra’s
Shangri-La, the utopia of James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon, had a powerful grip on the world’s imagination in the dystopian 1930s. Frank Capra achieved his
Most of the releases in RCA’s classic film score series consisted of short extracts or suites from the complete scores, but here we have an
