On his first release under contract to Decca, Nelson Freire revisits Chopin’s B minor sonata, one of his finest youthful recorded achievements. Comparisons between Freire’s
Maggie Teyte has a firm place in the pantheon of British singers, so this entry in Decca’s The Singers series has been received with wild
Erna Berger’s inclusion in Decca’s The Singers series is easily justified by her reputation if not her clear superiority to singers of her ilk–her ilk
Throughout the opening movement of Walton’s First Symphony, Andrew Litton ensures that crucial ostinato string rhythms are always sharply defined, sustaining a high degree of
In A Beautiful Mind James Horner associates genius with divine inspiration through his use of angelic choirs, a technique he employed in his earlier score
Barbara Bonney is a singer whose work is defined by exceptional grace and intelligence, and one important sign of these characteristics (missing from so many
Hans Zimmer’s music for Black Hawk Down is really more soundtrack than film score, serving as it does primarily as aural scene painting. Zimmer sees
The Decca Singers volume devoted to Joan Sutherland has many of the positives and negatives common to others in the series. On the plus side
What a difference four years makes! Decca’s Giuseppe di Stefano entry in The Singers series is made up of the tenor’s recordings from 1958 and
Just as some of the best French singers come from the periphery–Belgium, Canada, Sardinia–so do some of the finest Russian singers come from the Baltic