
The recent death of Zoltán Kocsis represents a major loss […]
Dutch soprano Elly Ameling is one of those artists who,
There are three Rachmaninov concerto cycles that could serve as
What has happened to the reputation and legacies of Arthur
For years Philips has witlessly reissued, over and over, Edo
Whatever you think of his operas (works of all-encompassing genius, or long-winded, tedious trash-troves), there’s little disputing that, as evidenced by this collection from Edo
The introduction of digital recording techniques coincided with the end of Edo de Waart’s lengthy tenure as music director of the San Francisco Symphony and
This is not just another Madama Butterfly, as those who know the work of Robert Wilson already will have deduced. In fact, the only hints
These SACD multichannel remasterings sound amazingly fine and true to life, so much so that the standard stereo issues don’t even begin to compare. The
There’s something wonderfully clean about this recording of Rosenkavalier. Edo de Waart leads with an absolute absence of affectation, relying on the charm inherent in