

Now here’s an interesting marketing ploy: At the cusp of […]

You know that when a major label calls a box

This is a great performance of Shostakovich’s grimly epic Thirteenth Symphony, a work that Muti has championed for many years. Everyone involved is in top

The title gets your attention. And its relevance–to particular periods, moments, and events in American history–likely depends on how you choose to interpret the word

I’ve never understood why the powers that control the commercial aspects of holidays have failed to exploit the fact that the Christmas season actually lasts

Like the previously released Szell edition from Sony, this is

As this excellent disc’s subtitle states, the program features “new arrangements for recorder and choir” of European Christmas carols and songs. The recorder soloist is

A bit more than half of this recording is excellent. The rest, not so much. We’ll start there. Martyn Brabbins simply lacks the fire that

If you like trebles in Bach—and specifically in the Christmas Oratorio—why not opt for those that Bach, a few generations back, worked with himself? Certainly,

There is an ancient depiction of Bohemia as a rose,
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