Over the past decade or so, David Hurwitz and I covered various individual volumes in Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s ongoing Haydn series for Classicstoday.com. Chandos has now
This opera, so dependent on the wedding of text and music, is a natural candidate for Opera-in-English (I believe one of the first recordings of
There is a handful of frequently recorded operas, all considered “challenging works”, that have never had a bad recording. One can come across, without searching
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! has long been accepted as the first Broadway musical to achieve total musical and dramatic unity, where individual songs reflect the
Anyone familiar with this repertoire, so intimately associated with Russian
Alfredo Casella composed his Concerto for Orchestra in 1937 for the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and Willem Mengelberg. At the time, there were very few
The reputation of Belgian composer, organist, and educator Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) basically rests upon one work, his Symphonie concertante for organ and orchestra. However, he
Schubert’s big A minor sonata D. 845 (once known as Op. 42) has been unusually well served on disc for decades, and the winning streak
The final installment of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s Haydn sonata cycle offers an inspired mix of early and late works in equally inspired interpretations. How does one
It’s not as if string quartets don’t already have plenty