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Christoff; Boris

  • Gounod: Faust/Angeles, Gedda, Christoff

    This 1953 recording, in good, re-worked mono sound, still has much to recommend, but it remains somewhat problematic as well. The Marguerite of Victoria de…

    Robert Levine

  • Reference Recording: Cluytens’ Faust, Still The One

    For the longest time this has been the preferred version […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a…

    Robert Levine

  • Reference Recording: Christoff is Boris

    This note-complete, beautiful-sounding 1962 performance of the Rimsky-Korsakov version of […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a…

    Robert Levine

  • Almost 60 Years Later, Still The Best Aida

    It may be true that memory believes before knowing remembers, […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a…

    Robert Levine

  • Verdi: Requiem/Karajan

    This live Verdi Requiem from the 1949 Salzburg Festival presents a wholly different Karajan than the conductor heard on his later, duller studio recordings. Here…

    Victor Carr Jr

  • Verdi: Vespri, ’51/Callas

    This live recording, made on May 26, 1951 in Florence, has been available on one label or another for many years, unfortunately in almost unlistenable…

    Robert Levine

  • Serafin’s Early Stereo Verdi Requiem

    This Requiem has long been overshadowed by Serafin’s 1939 recording with Gigli and Pinza; hearing this 1959 set after many years, it stands up beautifully…

    Robert Levine

  • Verdi: Don Carlo/Royal Opera

    London’s Royal Opera House’s new record label mines the gold in its archives, among which there can be few treasures that for musical excellence and…

    Dan Davis

  • BORIS CHRISTOFF–RECITAL

    Once heard, the instantly recognizable, bottomless basso profundo of Boris Christoff never can be forgotten. It’s a voice from Middle Earth that can make your…

    Dan Davis

  • LES INTROUVABLES DU CHANT VERDIEN

    What a treasure trove of Verdiana for this centenary of the composer’s death! The “rarities” of the title are twofold–the rarely heard and the excellent.…

    Dan Davis

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