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Leonard Bernstein’s DG Beethoven cycle has withstood the test of […]
This masterpiece–arguably one of the greatest operas ever penned–has done
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,
This addition to the Tristan sweepstakes is a great surprise and is highly recommended. It is crucial if only for the conducting of Carlos Kleiber.
There is rapture in every measure of Carlos Kleiber’s reading of this score, sometimes of the transcendent, gentle type, sometimes of the manic, ravishing sort.
This Ring, released in 1983, was the first to be digitally recorded. I recall that each CD contained only two or three tracks–certain technical aspects
Die schweigsame Frau was first presented in 1935; Hitler and Goebbels refused to attend because Stefan Zweig, the librettist, was a Jew and Strauss had
There are few surprises in this complete (it includes the little Leporello/Zerlina duet) Don Giovanni. Georg Solti’s reading is certainly far more “dramma” than “giocoso”–much
This is a sincere, well-prepared performance with no surprises in tempi, interpretation or emphasis; just a thoroughly Beethovenian reading of this wonderful work. Böhm balances
In his Missa Solemnis, Beethoven grasped heavenward hoping to touch the face of a God he could neither see nor hear, in a supreme effort
