Though singers have always recorded some of these arias and songs, it was young Leontyne Price who first started a trend by devoting a whole LP to the genre more than 45 years ago.
RACHMANINOV: The Miserly Knight
In its 2004 season Glyndebourne put on a double bill celebrating avarice ó Pucciniís Gianni Schicchi and the much-lesser known The Miserly Knight.
This Barber is a cut above
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/21/bmbarber21.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/12/21/ixartright.html
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3825
Internet encyclopaedias go head to head ó Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html
Giulini Conducts Mozart and Mahler
With the passing of Carl Maria Giulini (1913-2005) in June 2005, the music world lost one of its finest conductors. Among his legacy are some critical recordings, which represent the literature that Giulini chose to preserve.
Two Super Audio CD re-releases of Elly Ameling performances for Philips
I admit I jumped at the chance to review these SACD re-releases of performances that were on the very first classical vocal LPís that I owned and overplayed on under-maintained equipment, to the point where I frankly shudder to even try to compare my vinyl versions with the digital.