
Despite some fine, recent competition (including the English-language Chandos release) this 1982 recording is still the Jenufa to own. Charles Mackerras, long a Janácek champion,
Charles Mackerras speaks of this set as his last series of Janácek recordings, which is understandable–but let’s fervently hope that he hangs around to make
These marvelous performances, now reissued at mid-price, offer simply the last word in how to play Haydn on modern instruments while giving due consideration to
Charles Mackerras’ marvelous recordings of Brahms’ four symphonies with these same forces for Telarc find a logical successor in this delightful release of the two
It’s been a long time since Supraphon made a great new recording of Dvorák’s delicious Slavonic Dances, but it’s been worth the wait. Charles Mackerras
At 80 years young, Charles Mackerras remains one of the great conductors of our era, not to mention one of the most unheralded. His unfailing
The works featured in Alfred Brendel’s orchestral and solo “farewell” concerts respectively held in Vienna and Hanover in December, 2008 offer repertoire already available in
There is no shortage of fine recordings of these two wonderful symphonies, and Charles Mackerras has recorded them both before (in the case of the
Juliette is Martinu’s operatic masterpiece and one of the most distinctive of all 20th-century operatic works. The plot is hallucinatory and wonderfully weird. Michel, a
That the gorgeous Danielle de Niese is a creature of the theater with a brain and a fascinating timbre is pretty clear by now. Anyone
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