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It’s safe to say that nothing like the intimate and uniquely inspirational atmosphere of Britten’s Aldeburgh festivals exists today, given that annual event’s guiding and
Recorded in July 1985, this is the sixth of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s seven commercially published versions of Schubert’s Winterreise, and easily the finest of the baritone’s
Deutsche Grammophon’s Carlos Kleiber tribute winningly pairs two of the late conductor’s finest performances. The Schubert is unique for its classical drive, contour, and phrasing,
Ah, yes–if you are old enough, as I am, to remember when there was no “authentic performance movement” (and you don’t really have to be
Götz Friedrich’s 1981 Elektra film sets Richard Strauss’ opera in a dark and dingy abandoned 20th-century factory populated by grungy denizens in psuedo-Greek garb. Elektra
Composed expressly for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Aribert Reimann’s Lear offers a considered if ultimately problematic response to Shakespeare’s tragedy. In a booklet note Fischer-Dieskau recounts the
This live performance, taped in Berlin in September 1961, presents Mozart’s Don Giovanni in German, which is the first strike against it. The singers are
Paul Kletzki’s recordings of Mahler’s Fourth and Das Lied von der Erde were overshadowed by Klemperer’s versions of the same works, but they are by
Alert, bright playing, total professionalism, an idiomatic way and comfort with the score–it’s amazing how little these things matter when inspiration and great (or appropriate)
Herbert Blomstedt’s Decca recording of the complete Peer Gynt score remains my reference recording for getting the most music onto a single disc, and this
