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Thomas Quasthoff’s voice is one of remarkable agility, color, and emotional range, and on this CD, which primarily contains music from operas very few people
In the liner notes Peter Lieberson calls this program a “snapshot autobiography” of his “…musical life from 1972 to 1998.” In reality this is no
Apart from Herbert von Karajan’s 1972 Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel, all of these performances reappeared last year on the slightly cheaper Universal-Panorama label (469
In a word, John Eliot Gardiner’s take on Elgar is exasperating. With these four works (two warhorses and two less famous), he proves himself to
Mischa Maisky’s cavalier approach to rhythm can be damaging in this “Live in Japan” concert performance, but Martha Argerich’s playing is outstanding throughout. In the
Ironically, the attempt by these world-class performers to show the songs of Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) to be more than the work of a “second-rate female
Neeme Järvi is one of the few conductors to make sense of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Op. 9 “Antar” Symphony, a powerfully dramatic work that in the right
Last year, a “Double-Decca” set exhumed recordings of the first three Tchaikovsky symphonies by Lorin Maazel and the Vienna Philharmonic. Now we have the return
This is an enormous undertaking, even for “the hardest working man in opera”. Yet, here it is, all the Verdi tenor arias in one four-CD
Maria João Pires takes Beethoven’s “quasi una fantasia” heading to heart in the Op. 27 No. 2 sonata’s first movement. The freedom with which the
