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Your guide to classical music online
We all know about composers and instrumentalists who are also writers (Paul Bowles, Ned Rorem, etc.), but what about writers who’ve seriously pursued classical music?
It would be easy to dismiss this as just another Russian orchestral music collection, especially as it features the profusely over-recorded Night on Bald Mountain.
There are many fine recordings of these works in the catalog, but you won’t find any of them better sung than these by the superb
This falls very neatly into the category of clean, tidy, well-mannered, and very articulate Mozart Requiems, with crisp rhythms and expeditious tempos that perfectly suit
After his incandescent Verdi Requiem (also recorded for EMI with some of the same forces), Carlo Maria Giulini’s Beethoven Missa solemnis largely disappoints. The passion
There’s a lot about this performance that really is very good: the precision of the playing, the utter transparency of texture both between chorus and
Although this won’t be for everyone, the music on this program offers an unusual opportunity to hear what some of today’s most capable and interesting
Martin Pearlman does particularly well here by Vivaldi’s Gloria, which is lively and thoroughly enjoyable. The two sopranos, Tamara Matthews and Deanne Meek, both here
This is a very good St. Matthew Passion, with especially solid chorus and orchestral work and excellent sound. Of course, in a work such as
Recorded June 9, 1950 at the International Bach Festival in Vienna, Herbert von Karajan’s live St. Matthew Passion receives its 14th CD incarnation here. Or
