The trials and tribulations of our beleaguered USPS—beset by pandemic and the election deluge, and sabotaged from above—have meant that some of the recorded materials intended for this week’s post have not arrived in time for me to consider them. So I’m postponing the entry for one week, to Friday, Nov. 20, at which time I’ll be writing about no fewer than 33 tenors—31 of them contained in Marston’s 3-disc compilation A Survey of British Tenors Before Peter Pears, plus important recent releases devoted to Richard Tauber and Jussi Björling. Till then, stay well.

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