
This is an hour and 17 minutes of music culled from Pearl’s huge catalog of dead great singers. The sound is typically mediocre, but the
I reviewed this performance when it appeared on Naxos (type Q66 in Search Reviews), and I feel much the same about it as I hear
Collections with names like this one are immediately suspect, but the first five excerpts, from Boheme, are almost enough to justify the hyperbole all by
This is a disappointing performance, the sum of which is less than its parts lead us to expect. Because part of the original Act II
Here, in pretty awful sound, is the world staged premiere of Howard Hanson’s Merry Mount, performed at the Metropolitan Opera House on February 10, l934
Well, you win some, you lose some, and if you had been present at this performance of Forza by the Metropolitan Opera at the Boston
“Hoffmann” is twice as effective when all four heroines and villains are sung by the same soprano and baritone respectively, and so this set has
This performance, taken from the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Jan. 5, l935, has always been somewhat notorious, due mostly to Rosa Ponselle’s almost too-vivid portrayal