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This is an odd performance. Despite mid-level singing mostly by voices that are not world-class, it has a little-engine-that-could way about it that makes it
This wonderful, witty (yes, “witty”) setting of the Mass has had some distinguished recordings, most of them, interestingly enough, from Germany. First there was the
What a delightful and surprising disc this is! The two overtures, of course, are well known, the String Sonata somewhat less so, but the remaining
Joyce DiDonato becomes more interesting and more of a complete artist with each performance and recording. Even though we are living in a time of
Was the audience at the premiere of this opera in 1819 half-dead or half-deaf? It ran a few performances but was so badly received that
You might say that Mauro Giuliani’s (1781-1829) arrangement of almost two hours of Rossini’s Semiramide, one of the composer’s most complicated scores, is an exercise
Jennifer Larmore starred in Teldec’s 1997 complete recording (in Italian) of this opera, and along with Marilyn Horne’s (Erato) theirs have been the benchmark recordings
Although the whole performance is top-notch, the main reason for owning this Cenerentola is the warm, delightfully human, and stunningly sung Cinderella of Joyce DiDonato.
This 1987 performance is zippily led and well-played under Bruno Campanella. His Turin Orchestra plays handsomely, with the strings particularly impressive, but the chorus is
Rossini once described the quartets he wrote in three days when he was a 12-year-old as “dreadful”. They’re not. Lightweight? Yes. Charming? Yes. Saccharine? No.
