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Garrick Ohlsson and Donald Runnicles accomplished the ambitious feat of recording all five Beethoven piano concertos over five consecutive days in July 2022. You wouldn’t
Christine Brewer offers a compelling presentation of Richard Strauss Heroines
Smooth and easy going–fitting descriptors, were I discussing a performance of Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. But this is not what you want in a
This should clinch it: Jonas Kaufmann is the pre-eminent Wagner tenor of this generation. (Slated to sing Manrico soon, and judging from his Werther, he
This fine disc turns out to be more than the sum of its parts. The concept may stretch the boundaries of opera a bit by
A new recording of this opera is not needed; in the past couple of years we’ve had two newly recorded ones of varying quality and
Donald Runnicles leads this fine program of shadowy, late-Romantic music with an assured hand. His Prelude to Tristan und Isolde is taken very broadly and
This lively, lusty, stunningly recorded new Carmina Burana goes right to the top of the heap, sharing pride of place with the celebrated performances of
For one of Bellini’s less popular works, I Capuleti has seen a remarkable number of recordings, with some of the starriest stars in the operatic
This new Beethoven Ninth is a disappointment, especially coming after Telarc’s spectacular Carmina Burana recording with Donald Runnicles and his Atlanta forces. First, something seems
