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The Bottom Line: Finally, DG has boxed up Claudio Abbado’s […]
Claudio Abbado is one of the more enigmatic conductors still
These performances remain reference recordings for all of this music. The Three-Cornered Hat and dance from La Vida Breve were recorded by Decca, Nights in
One viable definition of the word “joy” might be hearing Teresa Berganza sing. The voice itself was stunningly beautiful, the phrasing and approach fully idiomatic
The back of the tray card bills this release as coming “from the producers of BBC Legends.” This is not an unqualified recommendation, for no
Zarzuela, that vaguely undefinable type of musical theater particular to Spain, is an amalgam of opera, operetta, and what we know as musical comedy. Some
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
This well-filled two-disc compilation of the art of Teresa Berganza features a singer who yields nothing to the current crop of star mezzos. Berganza’s beautiful
Here’s a surprise entry into the Figaro sweepstakes: A live reading under the energetic, witty-but-firm leadership of Zubin Mehta, a too-infrequent visitor to the opera
Deutsche Grammophon has at long last begun to reissue Rafael Kubelik’s 1970’s Beethoven cycle. While all three of Herbert von Karajan’s increasingly processed and denatured
