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2023
*GIACOMO LAURI-VOLPI, paralell voices, book review
*JAUME TRIBO : memories d’un apuntador by Jaume Radigales
2022
- RENATO CIONI, una vita da tenore by Giuliano Giuliano, book review
- UMBERTO GIORDANO, L’uomo e la musica by Agostino Ruscilli, book review
- The Divine Claudia : The Life and Career of Claudia Muzio, book review
2021
- TRE VOCI CATALANE, Maria Barrientos, Graziella Pareto, Mercedes Capsir by Maurizio Tiberi, book review
- AUGUSTO BROGI, il “baritono tenore” di Sesto Fiorentino (1847-1917) by Maurizio Sessa, book review
- MARCO STECCHI, baritono, by An Roos Stecchi, book review
- BENIAMINO GIGLI “The Master Tenor” by Colin Bain, Barry R. Ashpole general editor, book review
- LANDO BARTOLINI “Principe Ignoto” by Anna Maria Gasparri Rossotto, book review
- DIETMAR CORDAN, So wurde ich Opernsänger, book review
- ELVIRA DE HIDALGO, de primadonna a maestra di Maria Callas, book review
2020
- BRIGITTE FASSBAENDER, Memoiren “Komm’ aus dem Staunen nicht herab, book review
- PIRATES OF THE HIGH C’S, opera bootlegging in the 20th century by Nicholas Limansky, book review
- MAGISCHE TÖNE; Österreichische Tenöre der Nachkriegszeit by Gregor Hauser, book review
- The other Toscanini; THE LIFE AND WORKS OF HECTOR PANIZZA by Sebastiano de Filippi and Daniel Varacalli Costas, book review
- CARLO BERGONZI – il tenor di Verdi by Vittorio Testa, book review
- ISIDORO FAGOAGA, el tenor olvidado by German Erena Minguez, book review
2019
- THE GOLDEN YEARS , 1948 – 1973, 4 CD’s, Desirée records, cd review
- EVE QUELER, A View from the Podium, a memoir, book review
- CHANNA MALKIN and IZHAR ELIAS, Songs of love and exile, a Sephardic journey, cd review
- MARJORIE LAWRENCE, great Australian voices, 4 CD set, Desirée records, notes
- JARED SCHWARTZ, ANGE FLEGIER mélodies for bass voice, CD Toccata classics, cd review
2018
- PIERRE D’ASSY, Basse, two CD portrait, review
- FRANCO CORELLI & a revolution in singing, volume two by Stefan Zucker, book review
- OMIKE : The writers, Artists, Singers, and Musicians of the National Hungarian Jewish Cultural association (1939-1944) by Jeno Lévai, expanded by Frederick Bondy, book review
- MARIA FARNETI nel cielo di Puccini e Mascagni by Roberta Paganelli, book review
- FRANCO CORELLI, a revolution in singing, volume three, by Stefan Zucker, book review
- VINA BOVY, Gent en de Diva, by Eric Bauwens, book review
- RICHARD TUCKER : The Hard Bargain; music, medicine and my father by David Tucker, book review
- THE OPERA HOUSE, making the new Met, starring Leontyne PRICE; a Susan Froemke Film, DVD review
- Una voce dimenticata, la vita e le opere del tenore FEDERICO GAMBARELLI by Aurora Cantini, book review
- ANGELES GULIN, by Santiago Vela, book review
- JARMILA NOVOTNA, my life in song, edited by Willam Madison, book review
- MARIO BASIOLA, signor baritono, by Maurizio Tiberi, book review
2017
- FAMOUS VOICES ON RADIO, two volumes, CD review
- DIVAS, Mathilde MARCHESI and her pupils by Roger Neill, book review
- Great Australian Voices, JENIFER EDDY, 3 CD set by Desirée records, CD review
- “O MA CARMEN” Bizet’s fateful gypsy in portrayal from 1875 to the present by Victoria Etnier Villamil, book review
- MARIE COLLIER, Great Australian Voices, CD review
- ADA SARI, kulisy wielkiej slawy by Boguslaw Kaczynski, book review
- CHALIAPIN and THE JEWS by Joseph Darsky, book presentation
- WE SANG BETTER, two volumes by James Anderson, book presentation
- THE REAL TALES OF HOFFMANN, origin, history and restoration of an operatic masterpiece by Vincent Giroud and Michael Kaye, book presentation
- (Benvenuto) FRANCI, stirpe canora, by Maurizio Tiberi, book review
2016
- ATAHUALPA, an opera by Carlo Enrico Pasta, CD review
- LEO ZEITLIN, Yiddish songs, Chamber music and declamations, CD review
- Carteggio VERDI-WALDMANN (1873 – 1900),a cura di Marco Beghelli e Nicola Badolato, book review
- MASCIA PREDIT, her song recordings, Marston records, CD review
- VOCAL RECORD COLLECTORS’ SOCIETY, annual issue 2015, CD review
- The ISRAEL ALTER edition, 3 CD’s, CD review
- MOSHE BLUM : the Forgotten Voice of the Jeruzalémská Synagogue in Prague, CD review
- Une basse française d’exception: MARCEL JOURNET (two volumes) by Jean-Pierre Mouchon, book review
- Una vita da tenore, biografia di OTTAVIO GARAVENTA, by Marina Garaventa, book review
- Early 20th Century Opera Singers: Their Voices and Recordings from 1900-1949 by Nicholas E. Limansky, book review
- Madonnakindje, over het leven van CATHARINA VAN RENNES, by Marjan Blerk, book review
- The Vanished Musicians, JEWISH REFUGEES IN AUSTRALIA, by Albrecht Dumling, book review
- Great Australian voices, JOAN SUTHERLAND, CD review
- MAX LICHTEGG, a voice for generations, 4 CD portrait Andromeda, CD review
- MAX LICHTEGG, nur der Musik verpflichet, by Alfred A. Fassbind, book review
- NINETEENTH CENTURY ITALIAN TENORS, 3 CD release Marston records, CD review
- Vocal Record Collectors’ Society, 2016 Annual Issue, CD review
- ANDRZEJ HIOLSKI, operatic arias/songs/cantates. 4 CD Set, CD review
2015
- RICHARD TAUBER, Musik war sein Leben, by Martin Sollfrank, book review
- FRANCO CORELLI & a revolution in singing by Stefan Zucker, book review
- EWA PODLES, contralto assoluto by Brigitte Cormier, book review
- BRYAN HYMEL, Héroique, French opera arias, CD review
- RENATA TEBALDI, the complete Decca recordings, CD review
- MARCELLO DEL MONACO, il Maestro dei tenori, by Donella Del Monaco, book review
- MASSENET and the Mediterranean World, edited by Simone Ciolfi, book review
- FRANCISCA SOLARI,da soprano a contessa by Livia Brillarelli, book review
- ROLAND HAYES, The legacy of an American Tenor, by Christopher A. Brooks and Robert Sims, book review
- MARTA FUCHS, Das Schwabische Gotterkind, by Roswitha von dem Borne and Johannes Lenz, book review
- Il Sogno realizzato di ANNA MARIA PETTIGIANI con pubblicazione delle memorie inedite dell’artista by Agostino Formica, book review
- GIORGIO LAMBERT, a life at the opera by Fabrizio Posperi, book review
- Mastersangaren fran Vasteras SET SVANHOLM EN BIOGRAFI by Daniele D. Godor and Marie-Louise Rodén, book review
- MARIO DEL MONACO’s first Decca recording of Cavalleria and Pagliaci, CD review
- The Life and Works of RICHARD HAGEMAN by Nico de Villiers and Asing Walthaus, book review
- KATIA RICCIARELLI, da donna a donna, la mia vita melodrammatica, book review
2014
- The Vocal Record Collectors’ Society, 2013 Annual issue
- The Art of NANCE GRANT, three CD set, Désirée Records
- The Art of ROBERT ALLMAN, three CD set, Désirée Records
- GIACOMO PUCCINI, A Discography by Roger Flury, book review
- The FONOTIPIA TENORS, 2 CD release, The Record Collector
- Milka TERNINA, book reviews
- The Art of SANDOR KONYA, two CD set, Eloquence
- RICCARDO e Luigi STRACCIARI percorsi d’arti nel melodramma del primo Novecente by Eliana Stracciari Nappi, book review
- UMBERTO BORSO, ambasciatore del belcanto nel mondo by Vittoria Borso and Gabriella Pasquali, book review
- MAX KOWALSKI, songs by Melinda Paulsen, CD Zuk Records
- Esotismi musicali del DIBBUK, by Aloma Bardi, book review
- Francesco MOLINARI-PRADELLI by Daniele Rubboli, book review
- GRAND OPERA; The Story of the MET, by Charles and Mirella Jona Affron, book review
- DISCOVERING VOICES, the International Vocal Competition of ‘s-Hertogenbosch (1954-2012) by René Seghers, book review
- The Art of JUNE BRONHILL, three CD set, Désirée Records
- NINON VALLIN, la voix d’un destin by Patrick Barruel-Brussin, book review
- ROBERTO ALAGNA, ma vie est un opéra, CD review
- CARLO BERGONZI, The Great, CD review
2013
- JULIA CULP, an autobiography in Dutch by Beno Hofman, book review
- MICHELE MOLESE, remembered, cd review and portrait
- FRANZ LEHAR, componist van Hitler by Johan Bosveld, book review
- Giuseppine COBELLI, La Donna del Lago, by Maurizio Righetti, book review
- Teresa BERGANZA , un monde habité par le chant, book review
- First and Lasting Impressions: JULIUS RUDEL Looks Back on a Life in Music, book review
- JAMES MELTON, the tenor of his times by Margo Melton Nutt, book review
- RICHARD TUCKER, the opera recital collection/the song and cantorial album collection, Sony CD release
- KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD et kunstnerliv by Trond Olav Svendsen, book review
- THE VOICE OF FRANCE, The Golden Age of the RTLN by David Grandis, book review
- L’OPERA DE MARSEILLE, Temple de l’art lyrique de1924 à 1975, by André Segond, book review
- ROSANNA CARTERI, il fascino di una voce, by Paolo Padoan, book review
- GIUSEPPE KASCHMANN, il signore delle scene, by Giusy Criscione, book review
- Hope and Glory, a life of Dame CLARA BUTT, by Maurice Leonard, book presentation
- Wotan’s daughter, the life of MARJORIE LAWRENCE by Richard Davis, book review
- LA CARRERA DE VICTÒRIA DELS ÀNGELS /The career of Victoria de los Ángeles) by Manuel Capdevila i Fon, book review
- The most beautiful OPERA HOUSES in the world, by Antoine Pecqueur (text) and Guillaume de Laubier (photographs), book review
2012
- Giuditta PASTA, A life on the Lyric Stage by Kenneth Stern, book review
- Irma GONZALES, en vivo 1945-1965, two cd set
- WELT DER OPERETTE, Glamour, Stars und Showbusiness, book review
- Vladimir ROSING, book and DVD review
- Salomea KRUSZELNICKA, book review
- MUSIC WARS by Patrick Bade, book review
- Gabriel BACQUIER, le génie de l’interprétation by Sylvie Oussenko, book review
- TSAR FEODOR, Chaliapin in America, by Joseph Darsky, book review
- NICE ET L’OPERA by Robert Rourret, book review
- THE BJORLING SOUND, a recorded legacy by Stephen Hastings, book review
- Martina ARROYO, ein Liederabend 1968, CD review
- Geraldine FARRAR, opera’s charismatic innovator, second edition, by Elizabeth Nash, book review
- Giacomo LAURI VOLPI, Un tenor dall’ 800 by Maurizio TIBERI, book review
- Joseph SCHMIDT, sein lied geht um die Welt, by Alfred Fassbind, book review
- Peter HOFMANN, Geschichten aus einem bewegten Saengerleben, by Fritz Hofmann, book review
- Opera em SAO PAULO, 1952-2005, by Sergio Casoy, book review
- LEON JESSEL, Verweigerte Heimat, by Albrecht Dumling, book review
- Gruss gott Herr Kammersaenger! Heinrich PFLANZL, by Robert Pflanzl, book review
2011
- A new golden age, FORGOTTEN TENORS in Italy (1940-1950) 2 CD’s The Record Collector
- A new golden age, FORGOTTEN TENORS in Italy (1940-1955), volume two, The record Collector
- The complete VANNI-MARCOUX, Ward Marston CD release
- Giovanni PACINI, herinneringen aan mijn artistieke leven, by Adriaan van der Tang, book review
- Mado ROBIN : la voix plus haute du monde, DVD review
- The life of JAN PEERCE, DVD review
- Great artists in Budapest Royal opera house by Ferenc Kiss, book review
- ANDRE CLUYTENS, Itinéraire d’un chef d’orchestre by Erik Baeck, book review
- EVA TURNER, a life on the high c’s (book review)
- ALBERTO FRANCHETTI, two books on the composer (book review)
- FANNY HELDY, Carnet de souvenirs d’une cantatrice 1910-1940, scrapbook
- IBBS and TILLETT, the rise and fall of a musical empire, book review
- HERMANN PREY, Stille mein Liebe, DVD review
- JUSSI BJOERLING, a hundredth anniversary photo book, book review
- Huberte VECRAY, Walloon soprano, CD review
- Vocal record collectors’ Society, 2011 Annual CD issue
- Ludovic SPIESS, a biography by Costin Popa, book review
- A new golden age, FORGOTTEN TENORS in Italy (1940-1950) 2 CD’s The Record Collector
- A new golden age, FORGOTTEN TENORS in Italy (1940-1955), volume two, The record Collector
- The complete VANNI-MARCOUX, Ward Marston CD release
- Giovanni PACINI, herinneringen aan mijn artistieke leven, by Adriaan van der Tang, book review
- Mado ROBIN : la voix plus haute du monde, DVD review
- The life of JAN PEERCE, DVD review
- Great artists in Budapest Royal opera house by Ferenc Kiss, book review
- ANDRE CLUYTENS, Itinéraire d’un chef d’orchestre by Erik Baeck, book review
- EVA TURNER, a life on the high c’s (book review)
- ALBERTO FRANCHETTI, two books on the composer (book review)
- FANNY HELDY, Carnet de souvenirs d’une cantatrice 1910-1940, scrapbook
- IBBS and TILLETT, the rise and fall of a musical empire, book review
- HERMANN PREY, Stille mein Liebe, DVD review
- JUSSI BJOERLING, a hundredth anniversary photo book, book review
- Huberte VECRAY, Walloon soprano, CD review
- Vocal record collectors’ Society, 2011 Annual CD issue
- Ludovic SPIESS, a biography by Costin Popa, book review
2010
- Lina PAGLIUGHI, discografia completa, 3 CD Papageno
- Karl TERKAL, 90 th birthday issue, CD relief
- Gré BROUWENSTIJN, 4 CD portrait, CD Gala
- Jonas KAUFMANN, German opera arias, Die Schoene Muellerin, CD Decca
- Marcelo ALVAREZ, the Verdi tenor, CD Decca
- Franco ALFANO, a biography by Konrad Dryden, Book review
- The Great LABLACHE by Clarissa Cheer Lablache, book review
- Solomon KHROMCHENKO, CD recitals
- Sergej LEMESHEV, CD recitals
- Mark REIZEN, CD recitals
- Nadezhda OBUKHOVA, the CD collection
- José VAN DAM, a dvd portrait
- Kostas MYLONAS/Costa Milona, Edehna tragoudia, Greek CD release
- MERLIN by Goldmark, CD world premiere
- Paul PAYAN, selected recordings, Marston preferred customer CD
- Panorama ilustrado de la Opera by Miguel Gonzales Escobar (book review)
- Kleyne Lider, Yiddish/ladino songs, CD
- Ferruccio TAGLIAVINI, dvd film Anema e Core
- Giannina RUSS, The Record Collector, CD
- Theresa MALTEN, Wagner’s devoted Kundry (new book)
- Franco CORELLI “Sedute di Studio” CD review unpublished recordings
- Franco CORELLI, l’uomo, la voce, l’arte (book review)
- Amilcare PONCHIELLI, a biography in French (book review)
- Tito SCHIPA, the complete edition on CD (review)
- ANGELA CONA, operazangeres uit Usquert (book review)
- Hommage a REGINE CRESPIN (book review)
- Reri GRIST, a CD tribute
- Samuel RAMEY, American bass (book review)
- Jonas KAUFMANN, meinen die wirklich mich? (book review)
- Alfredo CATALANI, composer of Lucca (book review)
- A history of FRENCH OPERA by Vincent GIROUD (book review)
- Marcella POBBE, dove sono i bei momenti…(book review)
- Der Unvergessene Friz WUNDERLICH, de-luxe CD box with book
- Piotr BECZALA, Slavic oper arias, CD review
- Un ano depois…Recordando Alfredo COLOSIMO, CD release
- Jonas KAUFMANN sings verismo arias, CD review
Older
- Strange Child Of Chaos: Norman Treigle
- Yves Becko: Belgian opera singers release
- Internationaler Musikwettbewerb Der Ard
- Rita Gorr & Ernest Blanc, Les Telramund de Bayreuth
- The Complete Francisco Vinas
- 50 Jahre Deutsche Oper
- Edgar Evans Biography
- Lina Cavalieri, John Charles Thomas: Book reviews
- Fritz Wunderlich: DVD review
- Rise Stevens, Mario Lanza: Book reviews
- ABC Classics, Vocal recitals
- Ferdinand Hérold: La Sonnambule
- Parma Opera Ensemble
- Inge Borkh
- Elizabeth Whitehouse / Richard Bonynge
- Isabelle Philippe
- Great Songs Of The Yiddish Stage
- Fritz Wunderlich
- Luis Mariano
- Lauritz Melchior / An Enchanted Evening With Ezio Pinza
- African American Concert Singers Before 1950
- VERSTUMMTE STIMMEN
- Zarzuela Duets
- Roberto Alagna
- Jef Van Hoof
- Lone Koppel
- Shalom Comrade!
- Luise Willer
- The Complete Supervia, a new Ward Marston miracle
- La Rondine
- George Jellinek
- Julia Varady DVD
- Beverly Sills
- Heesters Johannes
- From Johnson’s Kids to Lemonade Opera
- Ferruccio Tagliavini sings songs
- Lucia Danieli: Registrazioni dal vivo (1956 -1967)
- Marco Berti: rare verismo
- Guiseppe Di Stefano
- DVD SCHLUSSAKKORD-ACCORDO FINAL (1960)
- Waldemar Kmentt
- MARIO DEL MONACO LIVE
- IL FAVOLOSO DEL MONACO
- LA DONNA PIU BELLA DEL MONDO
- LEONCAVALLO: Life and Works
- THE COLOGNE OPERA: SOUVENIRS IN SOUND
- Joseph Schmidt
- Germania
- Christmas Album
- The Autumn of Italian Opera
- Operette untern Hakenkreuz
- Hui He
- WHEN AUSTRAL SANG
- Lucienne Delvaux: airs, mélodies,oratorios
- Jonas Kaufmann: Romantic Arias
- Pilar Lorengar: Zaragoza Concert on the 18th of February 1988
- Basil Walsh: Michael W. Balfe: A unique Victorian composer
- FRANCO CORELLI, Prince of Tenors
- TERESA STRATAS IN UNDER THE PIANO
- Emmerich Kalman
- PAUL ASCIAK PORTRAIT
- LACZO ISTVAN, in memoriam
- Leib Glantz, The Man Who Spoke to God
- Peter Lindroos, opera arias and songs
- Un Ballo in Maschera, live DVD
- FRIEDA VAN HESSEN, an autobiography
- Magda SPIEGEL, a biography
- Paul ROBESON: The complete HMV recordings
- Giorgio LAMBERTI – CD portrait
- JAN DERKSEN SINGS VERDI, volume three
- JOANNA KOZLOWSKA
- Vocal Record Collectors’ Society 2008 Annual Issue
- Douce France, Musik-Exil in Frankreich, book review
- Kipras PETRAUSKAS, Lithuanian CD edition (see profiles)
- Roberto Alagna “le Sicilien” and Marcello Giordani “Sicilia Bella” CD
- Rosalia CHALIA, selected recordings of a forgotten artist, Marston CD
- Arrieta, La conquista di Granata, CD review
- Lehar, Die Blaue Mazur, CD review
- Cristina DEUTEKOM, 2 CD/1 DVD review, see profiles
- The voices of LECCE/le voci di Lecce CD review
- Fernard FANIARD, CD review
- Benatzky, Der Konig mit dem Regenschirm, operette CD review
- La Fanciulla del West, DVD review with A. STELLA, Vai
- Elisir d’amore, DVD review w. Ferruccio Tagliavini, Vai
- Carlo BUTI, una vita per la Canzone, Clama CD
- Renee FLEMING, Verismo CD Decca
- Nilo OSSANI, una vita per la musica, TimaClub CD
- Claudio Villa, una vita per la canzone, TimaClub CD