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21 interviews, and over 475 reviews of classical CDs, SACDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and downloads in this 640-page issue!

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In this Wagner year, the Wagner industry moves on and Barry Millington, editor of The Wagner Journal and author of three other recent books about the...

Toscanini’s career and personality present us with many conundrums. If he thought himself just “an honest musician” and not the greatest conductor in the world, why...


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Martin Chusid has written a great deal about Verdi’s operas and gives us here a most interesting and detailed study of one of the most popular,...

Jonthan Cott somehow talked Leonard Bernstein into giving an interview long after Bernstein had foresworn interviews. Bernstein invited Cott to dinner at his Connecticut home on...

This will be a short review, the point of which is that every parent who has a blind child, indeed, everyone who deals with blind children,...

The title is misleading, the subtitle’s reference to “journeys” is irrelevant, and the promotional blurb on the dust jacket comes nowhere close to answering the question...