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Yoel Levi and his Atlanta band provide meaty performances in this set of Rossini overtures recorded for Telarc in 1994, now available at lower price
If you’re not familiar with this odd masterpiece, your first reaction is likely to be surprise–a “petite” mass more than 80 minutes long, a small
Some might refer to these works as “minor” Rossini. On the contrary, if Orfeo (arguably) is juvenilia, it is fascinating and lovely juvenilia, and Le
As is now common knowledge, Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Leyla Gencer, Beverly Sills, and Marilyn Horne (among others) re-introduced the world to the bel canto
While recordings of Gioachino Rossini’s celebrated six string sonatas are plentiful, rarely are they heard as originally composed–for two violins, cello, and double bass. And
Compared to many of his contemporaries, much of Artur Rodzinski’s long, fruitful career is relatively undocumented on CD, so this is a welcome release. In
This opera is the Italian translation of a reworking of an 1818 failure that was revised in 1822 and finally presented in French, in Paris,
Mendelssohn’s two Concert Pieces for clarinet and basset horn (1832) form the outer flanks of this delightful collection. The energetic D minor bounces along busily
George Szell certainly merits inclusion in a series devoted to the last century’s great conductors, but this collection tells us little we didn’t already know
This is a live performance of the same La Scala production of L’Italiana that just appeared, and which I reviewed, on Opera d’Oro, this one
