EMI has reissued Virgin's 1992 recording of Dialogues des Carmélites with Kent Nagano leading l'Opéra de Lyon and an outstanding group of soloists in a performance that emphasizes the opera's dramatic qualities. It's inevitable to compare any new recording with the first, made in 1958, with Pierre Dervaux leading a comparably outstanding group of ...
Although produced in quick succession in Chicago, New York, Cologne, Berlin, Leningrad, and Moscow in the '20s, Prokofiev's opera L'Amour des Trois Oranges as quickly dropped out of the repertoire and has only rarely been heard since. Various reasons for this eclipse have been suggested: that the opera was too light, too ironic, too scattered and ...
Despite the cheesy cover design, this is a compilation that starts out with a big advantage: it offers a consistent musical point of view. The various singers, choirs, and orchestras are conducted by Michel Corboz, a veteran Swiss-born musician who has been active in Lausanne and in Lisbon, Portugal, and whose choruses have spawned an impressive ...
Here's a recording that, to use the terminology of African-American vernacular music, is old school in every way. It begins with a decidedly odd sound, which has a hollow, boxy quality, with distortion at the frequency extremes, that could almost have been heard on a 1950s LP. The booklet indicates that the disc was recorded by Swiss Radio, but it ...
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