Everything about these three discs practically screamed “vanity recording.” When I first put one of them on my player and looked through the accompanying material, that...
This is an interesting collection of Russian musical nationalists, showcasing the breadth and quality of Pushkin’s verses (with one ringer to a text by Anton Delvig)....
With “Pearl Fishers Duet,” Australia’s Decca Eloquence label copies the title of the often-reissued RCA recording of duets for tenor and baritone from 1951 with Jussi...
The music of the composers who were imprisoned at the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt (Terezín in Czech)—Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas, Hans Krása, and several...
To add to the confusion of the convoluted headnote, some of these selections are Hungaroton recordings, while others are from Hungarian Radio. All, except the brief...
This two-disc CD release features the coloratura soprano Patrizia Ciofi in various live performances. On CD 1, the first band is from the rarely performed