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It’s supposed to be spring, but the snow is falling heavily outside, and, after an extraordinarily long winter the formerly abstract concept of depression is
Michael Gielen’s Gurrelieder is one of the more expansive and certainly the most vividly detailed on discs. His tempos, while primarily on the slow side,
I’m not certain what went wrong with the well-played and well-sung September 28 and 29, 2002 performances that make up this recording, but the production
John Eliot Gardiner’s “Bach Pilgrimage” has had its rough spots and its brighter moments, this two-disc set being among the latter, owing much to its
These performances were the final ones in John Eliot Gardiner’s “Bach Cantata Pilgrimage”, a project that began on Christmas Day, 1999 in Weimar, Germany and
The choral music of Estonian composer Veljo Tormis has been very well treated on disc. Several of those efforts have been reviewed at Classicstoday.com, including
This live Verdi Requiem from the 1949 Salzburg Festival presents a wholly different Karajan than the conductor heard on his later, duller studio recordings. Here
It’s hard to imagine a composer “retiring” (as good an idea as it might be for some we can think of), but that’s just what
This is the sort of recording that requires an article rather than a two- or three-paragraph review. No part of this program—including the 14th-century Machaut
At last, an expertly sung rendition of Owls (An Epitaph) that also captures the detail and ambience necessary to impart its delightfully weird, impressionistic atmosphere.
