Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

This 24Bit/96kHz audiophile remastered two-disc recording of Aida, captured in performance on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, NYC in 1962 features a young, vibrant cast of future stars and Metropolitan Opera stalwarts. Opposite the great Italian tenor Franco Corelli as Radames is soprano Gabriella Tucci as Aida; mezzo-soprano Irene Dalis is Amneris and a young and future prominent American bass Cornell MacNeil portrays Aida’s father. George Schick, one-time President of the Manhattan School of Music, conducts the Met Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

Classical Music

Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen’s (1882-1954) opera Oberst Chabert (1912) experienced a modicum of success in the brief period after its premiere and before the onset of WWI, but for that reason and others fell out of favor, as did the composer himself more generally. One of only two recordings of this pleasingly melodic and well-orchestrated work in the CD marketplace, and certainly the more historic, its fine cast features the likes of Otto Weiner, Julius Patzak and Ms. Gertraud Hopf. Charles Adler conducts the Lower Austrian Tonkünstlerorchester.

Winfried Zillig arranged this recording in 1948 with a unique cast. The young Christa Ludwig, in one of her first recording sessions, gives an excellent interpretation of this opera.

This audiophile remastered, German-sung, Vienna, Austria production from 1960 of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth features some highly accomplished and noted singers active in the middle years of the last century. Hans Braun (1912-97) stars in the title role, with Anton Dermota as Macduff and the powerful dramatic soprano Christel Goltz (1912-2008), the dominant Salome of her time and arguably one of the best ever to sing and act that role, as the Lady Macbeth. Argeo Quadri (1911-2004), long associated with opera performance in Vienna, conducts the Vienna Radio Orchestra and Chorus.

Winfried Zillig conducts this highly erotic music with an incredible cast featuring Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart. This is a must for any serious opera collector.