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This performance was recorded over a ten-year period, the tenor […]
DG reissues its late-1980s Levine/Met Ring cycle as a budget-priced, space-saving boxed set, providing serious competition for similarly packaged editions of Wagner’s Der Ring des
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
The final opera in the Ring is the best of the four led by Bernard Haitink, recorded in the very early ’90s. Siegfried Jerusalem remains
There are a few nice things to be found in this hour of Die Zauberflöte, mostly from the sopranos. We get both arias of the
This Ring, released in 1983, was the first to be digitally recorded. I recall that each CD contained only two or three tracks–certain technical aspects
Dohnanyi leads a Beethoven Ninth distinguished by its forward focus, visceral energy, and most certainly the Cleveland Orchestra’s exquisitely polished and boldly projected playing. The
Instead of Arleen Augér and the Requiem, the cover of this Sony Essential Classics disc should feature Judith Blegen and Exsultate, jubilate, for it’s this
Georg Solti’s brash and barnstorming approach works well with Liszt’s sprawling Faust Symphony. The music’s bombast readily absorbs the Chicago Symphony’s blaring brass, here unleashed
