
I was surprised to purchase this latest Living Stereo remastering […]
The 1950s may have been vaguely Golden-Age but this is a bronze-ish performance of Trovatore, and there are at least a half-dozen available sets that
This set has been a crucial part of opera lovers’ collections for more than 40 years, and it’s still a necessity. The LPs distorted badly
Samuel Barber’s Vanessa was premiered at the Met in January, 1958; a co-production with the Salzburg Festival, it reached there in August of the same
This set, dating from the mid-1950s and originally (and for many years) on RCA, looks better on paper than it actually is, and this transfer
Because so many of Charles Munch’s recordings made during his years with the Boston Symphony (1949-1962) are still in the catalog, the conductor seems almost
For a few decades now, Fritz Reiner’s recording of the Verdi Requiem (one of his rare stereo recordings not made for RCA, and not with