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I have to confess: I love Franck’s Le Chasseur maudit. […]
Every time Otto Klemperer’s EMI Beethoven recordings are re-released, the couplings change, the prices go down, and the consumer gets confused. In the late 1980s
Both of these performances have been available in one form or another since 1956 (Figaro) and 1953 (Bastien). Neither is necessary for most collections. Oddly,
The Second and the Eighth are the two symphonies missing from James Levine’s Mahler cycle for RCA, recorded during the late 1970s through the mid-’80s.
The run of Walküres at the Met in late 1967 and early 1968 were to be directed and conducted by Herbert von Karajan–and indeed, the
DG reissues its late-1980s Levine/Met Ring cycle as a budget-priced, space-saving boxed set, providing serious competition for similarly packaged editions of Wagner’s Der Ring des
Recorded on February 19, 1966 in Vienna, this will stand as one of the oddest Carmens ever recorded. The young Lorin Maazel leads a big
Here are eight CDs, each one devoted to excerpts from one of Maria Callas’ complete recordings made for EMI between 1953 (Tosca) and 1964 (Carmen).
This very generous Brahms collection has more complete works and less excerpts than some of the other titles in Deutsche Grammophon’s Panorama series. The program
Otto Klemperer’s Brahms needs no introduction. It remains a classic reference edition, one of the very few complete cycles with absolutely no weak links. It’s
