Nimbus
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Kaddish
Samuel Pisar (narrator), Jan Remmers (tenor) & Christian Immler (baritone)
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Rundfunkchor Berlin, John Axelrod
The performance by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under John Axelrod is solid rather than spectacular, and Bernstein's own second recording remains definitive. —
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Viennese composer Egon Wellesz was very much a product of his times. Mahler's conducting was an early influence, while Schoenberg and von Hofmannsthal were influential associates.
Once Hitler's... — -
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There are those who say that once they had heard Ponselle in the flesh they never wanted to hear her recordings for they did her such scant justice. That is quite credible, though the reaction... —
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So why should you buy this disc? The answer is the sound ... I have heard just about all the Schipa transfers over the years, and from none of the others has his voice emerged with such startling... —
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Nimbus has done [Ponselle] a signal honor by devoting a third disc to her recordings, but this is no collection of near-misses and also-rans: the seventeen items on this disc come from the same... —
