Tales of Hoffman
A widely circulated fiction is that no one buys CDs anymore. In fact, thousands do, drawn to the format’s durability, high technical quality, and those richly informative notes that come with most releases.
Take one of recent time’s more memorable opera recordings, Simon Rattle’s live Barbican Centre concert performance of Janáček’s . Superbly conducted, expertly cast, and vividly recorded, it’s now available from LSO Live as a 2-CD set (LSO 0889). The box comes with a
