On the surface, this Ring cycle recording -- though a bargain price -- might seem like a poor relation to those by Sir Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, and others, or to the live recordings from the 1950s by the likes of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Clemens Kraus, and Hans Knappertsbusch. The very names constitute big guns in opera, and ...
Whether as an extended song cycle for four soloists with chorus and piano accompaniment or as an oratorio for four soloists with chorus and orchestral accompaniment, Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri is a lovely work of mid-nineteenth century German Romanticism at its most pseudo-oriental. The story of an angel banished from paradise and her ...
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