Each age, we are told, reinvents Die Zauberflöte in its own image. Whether there is any truth in that statement can perhaps be assessed by comparing these two recordings, issued simultaneously, though ...
Joseph Keilberth (1908-1968) was one of the great Strauss conductors. He made few commercial recordings of the composer's work, however, and we owe much of our understanding of his achievements to ...
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