Handel’s opera arias have been very well treated on disc; the duets not so generously. This collection should adjust the balance for a couple of
Let’s not waste time: get this for soprano Lucy Crowe’s voice, for her performance of “What passion cannot Music raise”, for her “The soft complaining
Lise de la Salle’s highly accomplished virtuosity and innate sense of drama easily lend themselves to Franz Liszt’s wide-ranging piano idiom. The opening Dante Sonata
This was Vivaldi’s first opera; it appeared in 1713. (He wrote 93 others.) There are now four available recordings: this one; one on Brilliant Classics
Julia Lezhneva, a protégé of Kiri Te Kanawa, is a 21(!)-year-old Russian soprano with a pretty, round face, who made her professional debut at 16.
This new recording of Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 has the distinction of being the first on SACD. Otherwise, it’s pretty much yet another fine performance
Anna Vinnitskaya has a formidable technique: the crazy cadenza in the first movement of the Prokofiev holds no terrors for her, and she shapes it
Soprano Sandrine Piau seems to go from strength to strength with each new recording. Her first solo disc of Mozart arias was widely praised (type
Sergey Khachatryan’s unaccompanied Bach is decidedly “old school” in its tapered phrasings and dynamics, with an emphasis on nuance and tone color rather than linear
This is a really fine set of Mozart symphonies, performed in the period style but without a trace of the doctrinaire attitude of so many