Konya; Sandor

Reference Recording: Kubelik’s Legendary Meistersinger

David Hurwitz

Jed Distler lauded this performance on its first reissue on […]

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Verdi: Requiem/Giulini

Dan Davis

Of the four available versions of Giulini’s Verdi Requiem, a DG 1990 Berlin set can be ignored since it’s throttled by the torpor that infected

Wagner Meistersinger Kubelik Myto

Jed Distler

Contractual problems prevented Rafael Kubelik’s 1967 Bavarian Radio recording of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger from being released until its appearance on the Calig label several years

Boulez Parsifal Melodram C

Jed Distler

Wieland Wagner’s stripped-down, minimalist Bayreuth Festival staging of his grandfather’s Parsifal finally met its aural equivalent when Pierre Boulez first conducted the opera in 1966,