
Hands down, Nicolai Gedda was the classiest lyric tenor of the 1950s and ’60s (and very early ’70s). For the most part he wisely kept
By definition, vintage Hotter in Wolf songs is self-recommending. Testament has gathered some of the great bass-baritone’s finest recordings made in his prime between 1951
There’s no shortage of Fischer-Dieskau’s CD versions of Winterreise–no less than seven, plus whatever underground live recordings are floating around in the pirates’ patch. This
This disc of classic recordings remains indispensable. Hans Hotter recorded the Bach Cantata No. 82 in 1950, and despite many wonderful recordings of the work
Victoria de los Angeles, who’ll be 80 this year, has long enjoyed devoted admiration from both opera and song mavens, as confirmed by the almost
Despite the title, this is not “the very best” of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Disc 1, focusing on lieder, arguably contains tracks that could contend for such
This EMI “Great Recordings of the Century” reissue contains a classic performance of Schubert’s song cycle Schwanengesang D.957, and a further group of four songs,