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This opera has been referred to as Richard Strauss’ “bel canto” opera, but it’s impossible to figure out why. It requires a great dramatic soprano
As a Strauss conductor, David Zinman’s interests lie more with making sense of the composer’s complex linear strands than reveling in his dazzling sonorities and
This recording, live from the Vienna State Opera in 1955, was taped just weeks before virtually the same cast (there’s only one major difference) entered
This 1983 Strauss album was made toward the end of Claudio Abbado’s London Symphony period, which yielded some of his finest recordings. Abbado’s readings are
Ho-hum. Not great recordings of not great Strauss make for not very compelling listening. Strauss’ own arrangement of Die Frau ohne Schatten consists of much
Warner Classics’ edition marking the 50th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s
Within the first few seconds of the first track—the Sonata
This release brings together all of the Columbia Masterworks and
This is a vanity project, plain and simple. The person
The Bottom Line: Bernstein was an incomparably great Stravinsky interpreter,
