
[A re-post from our archives in memory of conductor Andrew […]
Otto Klemperer’s recording of the Magic Flute has long been considered the recording. When it came out, in 1965, it impressed itself on so many
This five-CD set contains a relatively pale early 1970s recording
In the movie “The Invention of Lying,” everything in the
This Mahler cycle has had a checkered history on disc.
Janácek’s last three operas–The Cunning Little Vixen, The Makropulos Case,
This was a relatively late entry in the Charles Mackerras
Announcing the return of what we used to call “Orff Orph!” this is in reality Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, rescored, cut, and reorganized by Carl Orff for
This CD is a strongly affecting reminder of what was lost to the music world when Lucia Popp died of cancer in 1993. This recording
Weinberger’s Schwanda used to be extremely popular, and even the formerly ubiquitous Polka and Fugue seems to have fallen out of favor. This is the