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BASTIANINI in Donezetti's La Favorita

BASTIANINI in Donezetti's La Favorita

This week we release our 200th vocal music album, a fabulous 1955 stereo production of Donizetti's opera La Favorita, recorded by Decca in Florence...

MENGELBERG Concertgebouw Telefunkens Vol. 3

MENGELBERG Concertgebouw Telefunkens Vol. 3

Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam recorded some of the finest sounding discs of the 1930s and 1940s, and this week br...

ANSERMET French & Swiss music at the NBC

ANSERMET French & Swiss music at the NBC

Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet was guest conductor over 3 seasons with the NBC Symphony Orchestra between 1948 and 1950, giving a total of eleven ...

FLAGSTAD sings Gluck's Alceste

FLAGSTAD sings Gluck's Alceste

Kirsten Flagstad's US career ended triumphantly in 1952, when she sang the title role of Gluck's Alceste at the Met in performances that garnered r...

RICCI's incomparable Paganini Caprices

RICCI's incomparable Paganini Caprices

"And what control Ruggiero Ricci has! That dancing spiccato, that iron-fingered in-tune-ness! The masterly technique is at the disposal of a qu...

FREDERICK STOCK & The Chicago Symphony, Vol. 2

FREDERICK STOCK & The Chicago Symphony, Vol. 2

"The electrical recordings verify Stock and his orchestra as magnificent performers of both popular and less well-known repertoire. The work of ...

CALLAS & SCHWARZKOPF in Puccini's Tuandot

CALLAS & SCHWARZKOPF in Puccini's Tuandot

"To have Callas, the most flashing-eyed of all sopranos as Turandot, is—on record at least—the most natural piece of casting. Other sopranos may ...

BRENDEL plays Liszt

BRENDEL plays Liszt

"Liszt, in his compositions, was seen as a poseur and charlatan (which he only occasionally was), the embodiment of a superficial and bombastic ro...

VAN BEINUM conducts Bruckner

VAN BEINUM conducts Bruckner

Eduard van Beinum's 1956 recording of Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 is one of the all-time classics. Recorded with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amste...

SZIGETI European Columbia Recordings

SZIGETI European Columbia Recordings

"Pristine again triumphs with its fine remastering of the European Columbia recordings by violinist Joseph Szigeti. The recordings in this set date...

HORENSTEIN conducts Haydn and Mozart

HORENSTEIN conducts Haydn and Mozart

We continue this week with our three-part series of Haydn and Mozart symphonies under the baton of Jascha Horenstein, with live and studio recordin...

TOSCANINI'S 1949 Aïda

TOSCANINI'S 1949 Aïda

We begin 2023 with one of Toscanini's great operatic recordings, drawn from two consecutive broadcasts made in 1949, of Verdi's Aïda, presented her...