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When I want to hear Gesualdo madrigals this is the […]
In case you had forgotten that Marilyn Horne was one
This recording was poorly received upon its initial release. Re-listening,
For some ridiculous reason, whenever Decca issued these recordings on
No one would deny that Marilyn Horne was one of
From a purely vocal point of view, this version of
Marilyn Horne was a 20th century vocal phenomenon, and this early recital (her first solo?) from 1964 is an example of a type of voice
Had James Levine finished his Mahler cycle with Nos. 2 and 8 it might well have been the finest available. Rehearing these performances it’s amazing
István Kertész leads a suitably stern Mozart Requiem, with a grim-toned Vienna State Opera Chorus sounding as if there were no hope at all for
Throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s Marilyn Horne was the greatest bel canto mezzo-soprano in the world, a position that, despite the rise of great
