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Clearly, the draw for this recording is the Boccanegra of Dmitri Hvorostovsky, whose legions of fans will flock to their local or online record mart
American tenor Michael Spyres is the latest in what seems like a long line of flexible-voiced tenors comfortable above the staff. Whereas 50 years ago
This CD, recorded live on June 24, 2008, is a response to those who think/say that there are no fine Verdi baritones and sopranos anymore–i.e.,
Why, oh why, do we need yet another recording of The Four Seasons? It would be one thing if there were anything interesting about this
This is 78 minutes of Pique Dame, or a bit less than half the opera. Rather than just being a highlights disc, this new series
Once you get used to the idea that your favorite tenor (in my case Björling) isn’t singing “Torna a Surriento”–or any other of these 17
It’s curious that Delos should choose this release, a program of chamber music lasting just under 48 minutes, as one of its first Super Audio
So this is how the Party Leaders wanted it done, eh? After the purges and denunciations of those troublesome “formalist” composers, including Shostakovich and Prokofiev,
Mozart was Tchaikovsky’s hero, so it is no surprise that some of the Russian master’s compositions reflect ideas of the Classical period. The Serenade for
