Sony Classical offers opera lovers another ten complete recordings from the RCA Victor, CBS/Sony and Eurodisc catalogues, with highlights from La Juive and the complete Tha?s with Anna Moffo as well...
Der Freisch?tz holds a crucial place in history, setting the course of German Romantic opera. Nikolaus Harnoncourt's typically probing approach produced an interpretation that, in the words of the...
Furtw?ngler had a unique philosophy of music. He saw symphonic music as creations of nature that could only be realized subjectively into sound. Neville Cardus wrote in the Manchester Guardian in...
Delving into black magic and folk culture, Weber created with Der Freisch?tz a new aesthetic that was to nourish the imaginative world of a whole generation of composers. Ren? Jacobs has gone back to...