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There’s a lot of talk in the opera world about singing actors–vocalists who can express deep emotion as well as hit their technical targets–but it’s
The headliner in Testament’s Berlioz/André Cluytens disc–part of its excellent series of reissues of the great conductor’s recordings–is the conductor’s first, 1955 reading of the
Admirers of Otto Klemperer will be heartened by the contents of this disc (which he probably never would have authorized) if only to prove to
Solomon must have liked the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto because he recorded it twice, and while this version marks a bit of an improvement over
Solomon’s 1956 Grieg and Schumann Concertos were reissued by EMI in 1993, and they’re refurbished again here on Testament, although little if any timbral difference
Solomon’s Schubert is a real discovery, especially his 1952 recording of the D. 784 A minor sonata. He conveys the opening movement’s dark countenance by
Paul Bailey’s Testament transfers of the three Mozart concertos Solomon recorded in the early 1950s boast a tonal richness and ambient bloom that supercedes EMI’s
This recording of Elgar’s In the South dates from 1955, and despite somewhat thin and shrill mono sound it roundly outclasses Boult’s later EMI recording
This recording makes its first appearance on CD–which also marks its first issue since EMI originally released it in 1956. Antonietta Stella was the “consolation
Rehearsed by Reginald Goodall, this slow, dark-hued, un-Romantic, un-sentimental, un-optimistic reading of what is normally the Ring’s most chipper act is a fascinating study. Assuring
