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Although he’s remembered mainly as an opera conductor because of his many recordings, Kurt Eichhorn led a quite varied career being a conductor in Germany. He researched with Hermann Zilcher on the Würtzburg Conservatory, and worked his method up through the rates of provincial homes. He produced his professional debut …

With a big, bronzed voice and unusual facility in the very best register, James King proved a significant artist in the Strauss and lighter Wagner heroic tenor categories. Furthermore, he was a trusted and musically audio, if often in short supply of electrifying, vocalist of Italian and French functions, such …