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Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is utterly lovable: witty, wise, bawdy, meta, philosophical, whimsical. After a brief run elsewhere its life began in 1956 on Broadway as
This collection promises more than it delivers: three Hindemith operatic works, two from his radical early Weimar phase, and one from his mature, “middle period”
This may be scratching the bottom of the Bernstein legacy barrel, but evidently there’s still some good stuff to be found. Granted, the Mambo from
Marin Alsop plays Bernstein as well as Bernstein, and there can be no higher compliment than that. This version of the iconic ballet Fancy Free
Marin Alsop’s Prokofiev recordings for Naxos have had their ups and downs. This complete Romeo and Juliet ballet is definitely an “up.” It’s not the
Here, in one convenient box, are all of Marin Alsop’s
Marin Alsop’s Prokofiev Symphony cycle ends, fittingly, with a graceful and winning performance of the uncomplicated Seventh Symphony, featuring light textures, ear-catching woodwind detail in
It’s great to see this music being played with such conviction. We all know that Marin Alsop is a superb Bernstein conductor, and Naxos already
You want to admire this cycle. It’s well played and well recorded, and has had some impressive releases. But in the big, more popular works,
Prokofiev’s Third Symphony doesn’t get the same amount of attention as the Fifth, Sixth, or God knows the First, but it’s a great work all
