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These generally fine performances make a welcome addition to Naxos’ ongoing Martinu symphony cycle. I hope that it’s no longer necessary to make a case
Volume 2 of Naxos’ complete Caruso bridges the great tenor’s last European recordings into his first American sessions for Victor. Caruso’s 1904/5 New York recordings
Gustave Charpentier’s Louise was the French answer to the emergence of Italian verismo opera in the 1890s. Its four acts encompass a vivid soundscape of
What’s a critic supposed to do? The last thing you want is to go around just handing out top ratings, but what choice do you
Here are three Alfred Cortot recorded benchmarks alongside one of the great pianist’s worst recordings. Granted, Cortot generates genuine excitement and fire in Ravel’s Left
Christmas without music is like, well, how can you live without music at Christmas? In the history of the world no other season, holiday, event,
Alexander Glazunov’s brilliantly melodic, brightly colored, vividly orchestrated Fifth fits comfortably within the late-19th-century Russian symphonic style. That Glazunov was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov shows
Werther seems to have edged out Manon in popularity among Massenet’s operas, judging from its numerous recordings. Their many excellences, however, yield pride of place
As part of a series subtitled “Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation”, this program focuses on the Vesper (or Evensong) service canticle (text from the
Another in Naxos’ choral music compilation series subtitled “Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation”, this one features works based either on the psalm text Miserere
