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This, Rossini’s 34th, is his longest and last Italian opera. It is a behemoth–just under four hours of music, with a 10-minute overture, a 25-minute,
I was much taken by Lise Davidsen’s first CD (see reviews archive) and am equally impressed by this, her second. I compared her there to
Mark Elder may be a fine operatic conductor, but his recordings of symphonic music have been far less impressive. Here’s a case in point. Vaughan
Mark Elder and the Hallé complete their Wagner Ring Cycle with Siegfried, which, like its predecessors, stems from concert performances in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
This is not only a rare recording of Puccini’s first opera, it is the first version of his first opera, never before recorded. It dates
I haven’t heard a Sibelius Fifth this dull since Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony on a Vanguard LP, which was my first, nearly ruinous
The Fourth and the Sixth are the most dramatic and violent of Vaughan Williams’ nine symphonies, yet somehow Mark Elder manages to render them both
It is ironic that the most famous—indeed, only famous—moment from this opera, the tenor aria “Angelo casto e bel”, was not composed by Donizetti. In
This updating of Verdi’s La traviata by director Tom Cairns and designer Hildegard Bechtler adds little to the opera, but neither does it detract. The
Coming in at a tidy three hours and eight minutes, Donizetti’s huge Les Martyrs, composed (or adapted) for Paris in 1840, is here presented in
