
It’s good to see Naxos reissuing some of its Marco Polo ballet rarities. Adolphe Adam’s La Filleule des fées (The Fairies’ God-daughter) is a delightful,
Following in Paganini’s footsteps, Henri Vieuxtemps was a touring violinist
The Vieuxtemps violin concertos offer a feast for violinists (and
Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote a great deal of enjoyable music, and Naxos
This 1994 recording is from the early years of Naxos when the label’s budget pricing for recordings of standard repertoire attracted many new classical music
Naxos’ Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty recordings are from early in the label’s history (1989 and 1991, respectively) when it often employed Eastern European orchestras–in this
Not too many listeners are Dybbuk admirers, and even Bernstein’s supporters find this music less interesting than much else that he wrote. The fact that
We have long needed a good modern recording of the complete Bachianas Brasileiras, and this set fills the bill nicely. It was exactly 20 years
Josef Bayer (1852-1913) wrote one-act ballets as director of ballet in Vienna. The Fairy Doll (Die Puppenfee) is one of those toys-come-to-life stories full of
Although this delightful ballet’s story (a boy and girl in a provincial village find love despite psychotically grumpy parents) practically defines the word “slender”, the