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Eloquence’s Hans Knappertsbusch Opera Edition brings together all of the […]
This reasonably priced, Japanese DG release very conveniently offers two
In these days, when everyone is recording endless versions of
For this recording, an early co-production with Deutsche Grammophon, Karel
This review could have been either very long, or very
Ah, yes–if you are old enough, as I am, to remember when there was no “authentic performance movement” (and you don’t really have to be
Alert, bright playing, total professionalism, an idiomatic way and comfort with the score–it’s amazing how little these things matter when inspiration and great (or appropriate)
Released for the first time (I believe), Carl Schuricht’s live 1961 Beethoven Ninth from Stuttgart follows a brisk and direct interpretive path familiar from his
Hans Knappertsbusch’s Fidelio had the misfortune (or good fortune, depending on your point of view) to appear about the same time as Klemperer’s superior EMI
Recorded in 1958, this Don Giovanni’s prime attraction is Ferenc Fricsay’s crisp, forward-moving conducting. The tempos are swift, almost as though Fricsay can’t wait to
