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This recording is mostly a positive experience: Both singers are in excellent voice, and it’s actually not all that jarring to listen to two such
This was recorded in 1972, and I recall being disappointed when it was released the following year. Time has done little to dull my disenchantment:
Georg Solti offers a big Bohème, with many moments of real excitement along with some strangely slow tempos in the third act and a bit
This 1977 performance boasts the finest Dulcamara on disc–Geraint Evans–in a performance both unique in its lack of buffo bluster and in its remarkable “face”;
Taped opening night at La Scala in 1969, this will be of interest mainly to fans of the young Placido Domingo and Raina Kabaivanska, a
In 1977, when this very fine recording was made, Claudio Abbado was at his absolute peak as an opera conductor. His reading is full of
Despite one piece of casting that some listeners may find a detriment, this is a marvelous production/performance (from 1991) of Puccini’s impressionistic, fascinatingly scored, under-appreciated
Christus am Ölberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives) is Beethoven’s only oratorio, and while the 1803 work hardly measures up to the peaks of
The 16 selections here cover the years 1968 through 1995, with stops in ’82, ’92, and ’93. One of the remarkable things about listening to
There are plenty of good recordings of this opera on CD: two with Callas, one commercial production starring Caballé (with Pavarotti), and at least one
