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This is a stumper: If you had a 46-year-old recording of a great Isolde in her prime and in one of her greatest roles, in
Yes, it’s mostly slow and sober, but the sheer concentration, textural clarity (notably in the forward-balanced woodwind writing), and spiritual integrity of Otto Klemperer’s 1957
Listeners familiar with the 1966 recording of this opera, also from Bayreuth and featuring three of the same main players–Nilsson, Windgassen, and Waechter–will have an
This two-CD set is a fine way to appraise the remarkable voice and talents of Birgit Nilsson, the dramatic/Wagnerian soprano the likes of whom we
Birgit Nilsson’s timbre, as the late John Ardoin writes in the booklet notes, “was sunlight reflected off a copper surface.” That bright, gleaming tone could
There is nothing wrong with this performance of Turandot, recorded live in Milan in l964, except that the pitch slips up part way through Act
This objet trouve, very valuable as a document, is not easy to listen to. (I believe this is its first appearance on CD and I
One of the oldest of Wagner wisecracks has George Bernard Shaw looking down at his watch after an hour to find that only 15 minutes
This Don Giovanni, recorded in 1959, always has been a mixed bag. Erich Leinsdorf keeps things moving but lacks either poetry or a clear point
This collection of arias was recorded in 1957 and 1958, when Birgit Nilsson was just coming to prominence as one of the world’s leading sopranos.
