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There are many fine conductors working today, but who among them has the sheer panache of a Beecham, a Bernstein, a Karajan, or a Munch
This is a disappointing release. After Nina Stemme’s fine performance as Isolde on the recent Domingo/Pappano set, in which she exhibited a handsome, flexible sound,
Rumored to be EMI’s last opera recording made in a studio, this much awaited set’s raison d’être is the Tristan of Placido Domingo. Now in
Once again, Domingo surprises us. As Pavarotti pleads to fade into the memory bank, the Spanish tenor keeps working–learning, attempting to get into new idioms,
This recording is mostly a positive experience: Both singers are in excellent voice, and it’s actually not all that jarring to listen to two such
Han-Na Chang’s stunning recording of Prokofiev’s Symphony-Concerto for cello and orchestra led me to expect great things of her Shostakovich, and I was not disappointed.
Leif Ove Andsnes and Antonio Pappano deliver full-bodied and intelligently detailed readings of Rachmaninov’s first two concertos that rightly project the composer’s virtuosic keyboard writing
Natalie Dessay’s vocal crisis–she was operated on for nodes on her vocal cords three years ago–is clearly over. The voice has ripened somewhat, but don’t
This well-filled disc contains extremely distinguished performances of all three works, particularly the Lalo, a piece that so often winds up being merely annoying but
Here’s another outstanding disc by Maxim Vengerov, a successful frontal assault on three showpiece pillars of French Romanticism. The Lalo and the Saint-Saëns were written
