This cycle of Mahler's symphonies plus his Das Lied von der Erde is the last will and recorded testament of Gary Bertini. Although the Moldavian-born, Israeli citizen Bertini lived another decade after most of these performances were recorded in the early '90s, he made very few other recordings and thus his posthumous reputation will be determined ...
Is this the great American Ring? It may be: with the Met's maestro James Levine on the podium, the alert and opulent Met Orchestra in the pit, James Morris as a commanding Wotan, Gary Lakes as a virile yet vulnerable Siegmund, Jessye Norman as a strong yet sensual Sieglinde, and Kathleen Battle as a delightful Forest Bird, this certainly is the ...
Recordings of Gustav Mahler's mystical Symphony No. 8 in E flat major, "Symphony of a Thousand" are surprisingly numerous, despite the obvious physical difficulties and prohibitive costs of mounting such immense productions. There are several terrific choices on the market, among them the critically praised recordings by Leonard Bernstein, Georg ...
One of the best things about the early twenty first century's plethora of BBC and London Philharmonic historical releases has been the crowd of performances led by Klaus Tennstedt. The highly esteemed East German conductor had died in 1998 and left behind him relatively few recordings to document his work, and the many freshly issued recordings ...
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