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2024

*DER VERGESSENE MAESTRO, Frieder Weissmann by Rainer Bunz, book review

*HIPOLITO LAZARO, O paradiso ! by Miquel Pérez Garcia

*FRANCO BONISOLLI, Tenor ohne Grenzen by Gregor Hauser, book review

*MIT RICHARD TAUBER AUF DER BÜHNE Jarmila Novotná bis Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Ein Lesebuch by Gottfried Franz Kasparek (Hg), book review

*ITALIAN OPERA SINGING AT THE TIME OF VERISMO. The invention of the modern voice by Barbara Gentili, book review

*REFLECTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE, Sixty Years of attending Thousands of Performances-and writing about each by Les Epstein, book review

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