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Ukraine’s rich musical heritage is the focus of this stylistically wide ranging yet smartly curated anthology, released by Parnassus as a fund raiser and co-produced
What a great show this is! Bruno Walter takes a grand view of this opera, and with big-voiced, big-personality singers like these, who can blame
This sizzler of a Die Walküre, one of the finest of the opera’s many vintage broadcasts from the Met stage, has everything going for it.
A release of absolutely bottomless worthlessness, through the dim sonics and timpani-heavy balances you can just barely make out the fact that there is nothing
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
The cover of Preiser’s “Alexander Kipnis in Russian Arias and Songs” depicts the great basso in a dramatic pose from his best-known role, Boris Godounov.
Karl Muck (1859-1940) was chiefly regarded as a Wagner specialist, particularly for his conducting of Parsifal. All the recordings he made from the opera are
The 1940s were a luxurious time for Wagner singing, as this Met broadcast from February 6, l943, confirms. Erich Leinsdorf leads a tight performance, with
