Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
This is a first-rate Schubert cycle, and we can only wonder what is in store for EMI now that it has decided to license its
In order to underline the “universality” of the Don Giovanni story, this otherwise quite traditionally presented production changes scenery and costumes with almost every scene,
These performances are stunning, among the finest from Riccardo Muti’s Philadelphia career. Seldom has “The Death of Tybalt” from Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet Suite No.
The Verdi Requiem is one of those awe-inspiring works that rarely gets a performance matching its greatness. It certainly doesn’t get it in Riccardo Muti’s
Composed for Naples in 1819, La donna del lago, another of Rossini’s serious operas, is based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott, whose appeal
If you had happened into La Scala some time in 1992 and encountered this performance of Donizetti’s Lucia, you would have left the opera house
The Philadelphia Orchestra truly shines in Brahms’ First Piano Concerto, thanks to Riccardo Muti’s firm, invigorating projection of what adds up to more than mere
Hey, it’s the New Year’s Concert, so what could be bad? The answer, of course, is “nothing”. Sure we could quibble about the various merits
Riccardo Muti’s 1977 recording of Ivan the Terrible still gives you the chills. The deep and panoramic sound perfectly suits both the score’s graphic, visual
Were I experiencing this performance while sitting at the back of a large opera house, I would be tickled pink at the energy (and volume)
