Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
This sloppily led, poorly played performance of Rossini’s Barber represents the Old Met at its worst. Slapstick reigns supreme–vocal slapstick–with the bass Salvatore Baccaloni as
The album title, “My Piano Hero” (never mind the cover photo), is enough to make you gag, and really doesn’t do justice to the quality
If you had happened into the old Met on the afternoon of February 22, 1964, you would have heard and seen this Rigoletto and you
Please don’t start rejoicing too quickly. On paper this is a fascinating cast, particularly given the performance date: March 7, 1964; but not everything works
Glenn Gould fans undoubtedly will welcome the iconoclastic pianist’s complete television broadcasts for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, all remastered from the best possible sources. While
Early in 1955 The Metropolitan Opera broke the so-called “color-barrier” by engaging the great African-American contralto Marian Anderson to sing the role of Ulrica in
The week before this broadcast was recorded–on February 4, 1961–Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli both made their debuts at the Met to wild superlatives, maniacal
This recording, Grover Washington Jr.’s final one before his death last December, is in the tradition of the classic Miles Davis/Gil Evans Porgy and Bess
The finest recorded Tosca remains the Callas/di Stefano/Gobbi on EMI, but if you won’t miss Callas’ multi-layered insights, di Stefano’s youthful passion and beautiful (for
Martha Argerich’s 1976 recordings of Schumann’s Fantasiestücke and C major Fantasy for Ricordi first appeared in the U.S. on a Columbia Masterworks vinyl release, while
