Perhaps her most famous operatic recording is the 1952 Tristan with Furtwängler, which has never been out of print.

This was the first complete operatic recording to be released on LP records.

By the late 1920s, when Crooks's operatic recordings were released, he was promoted to the prestigious "Red Seal."

For instance, he loved to listen to operatic recordings.

Tibbett's operatic recordings made in the United States during the 1920s and '30s are regarded as among the finest of that period.

These are vastly different musical personalities, as four newly released operatic recordings make clear once more, with the French language the only unifying link among them.

An operatic recording, for example, would still require a large number of microphones to bring soloists, chorus and orchestra into proper balance.

There may be some truth to that argument, but more likely the broadcasts cultivated a taste for operatic recordings.

The hall had sufficient space for choral and even operatic recordings, and the availability of the organ offered still another benefit.

Janowski has conducted most of the major opera houses of the world, and has made a number of operatic recordings.