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Claudio Abbado was near death when he accompanied Martha Argerich in these two concertos, captured live at the Lucerne Festival, but we mustn’t let sentimentality
One’s reaction is either “Oh, no, not another coloratura soprano,” or “Oh, good, another coloratura soprano.” By the end of this recital of chestnuts mingling
This intelligently selected (by Alan Newcombe), nicely representative collection of
Bernstein played a lot of Mozart in his day, and
Once past the sly title, designed to bring the word “ménage” to mind, underscored by the come-hither look of the CD cover, not to mention
It says something about Britten’s ability as a performer of
There are productions of this opera in which the original lovers return to one another; some in which they switch; and lately, in our more
Mozart spent a good seven years, on and off, working
Thirty-three year old Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka is making quite a name for herself, singing Violetta, Leila (in Pearl Fishers), Donna Anna, Anna (in Maometto
Full disclosure: I have been crazy about Simone Kermes since the first time I laid ears on her, and went even wilder when I began
