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Reginald Goodall conducts this May 1971 live Covent Garden Parsifal with the same rhythmic enervation and indifferent sense of shape that mark his EMI studio
This recording, taken from Lord Harewood’s personal collection and apparently not previously known to exist (or certainly not issued), was taped at Covent Garden on
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
Here’s an excellently curated selection representing VAI’s numerous live releases featuring tenor Jon Vickers. The tenor’s larger-than-life voice and intense communicative gifts transform the Dvorák
Despite the general darkness of the picture and the antediluvian camera-work, not to mention the fact that this performance took place outdoors (at Orange’s Roman
Recorded in 1978, Lorin Maazel’s Beethoven Ninth showcases his Cleveland Orchestra forces on powerful form, especially the assertive brass section that matches its Chicago Symphony
With only a single Italian on board, we have a right to expect something less than an idiomatic performance. But Olivero de Fabritiis, hardly anyone’s
This abbreviated (by about 25 minutes), sung-in-English, live performance of Cellini was taped in Boston in 1975; it’s primarily (possibly solely) of interest to fans
At the outset let me say that Melodram now offers the best sounding incarnation yet of Hans Knappertsbusch’s live 1958 Bayreuth Festival Ring Cycle. The
This is the Tristan that won’t go away. I’ve never met anyone who owns it who actually listens to it, but most people praise it
