Don Satz wrote

>>Beyond that, there are just two which I can't imagine being equaled:
>>Magic Flute from Klemperer and EMI, and La Traviata from Kleiber and DG.

And Jonathan Knapp added

>I thought about adding the Klemperer to the list, but I thought that
>it might draw objections since there is no dialogue.

One of the major reasons I like this recording.  (I have it on LP so I have
no options with the dialogue.  If I want dialogue--rarely if ever since I
don't speak German--there is the wonderful Bohm recording).

The other is that it (the Klemperer) is a damn good performance.

Roger Hecht