Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Acis & Galatea was Handel’s most popular work during the 18th century, and it is easy to understand why. The tunes are lovely, frequent, and
Of course if you are a Bocelli fan you will buy this whether it’s good, bad, or indifferent; if you just love Carmen you probably
This performance, recorded live in Bergamo in October, 2006, is an old-fashioned Lucia, the sort that is clearly pre-Callas, although most cuts are opened: the
Valery Gergiev’s visits to Wagner, at least on evidence of the Mariinsky’s world tour of the Ring a few years ago, have been scrappy and
Luigi Cherubini, a contemporary of Beethoven and Mozart and friend of Haydn, was Italian-born but spent most of his creative life in Paris. So, although
There are relatively few recordings of Bach’s Easter Oratorio, and perhaps there’s a “snob factor” involved, being that for this exuberant sacred composition Bach re-used
This Beethoven Ninth, the second such offering from Philippe Herreweghe, marks the completion of his cycle with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. After the recent Krivine
First, to dispel any confusion: Although this latest installment of John Eliot Gardiner’s “Bach Pilgrimage” series looks like a new release, it’s not. It is
Charles Mackerras gives us what may be the most complete Idomeneo on disc. He goes back to Mozart’s original score, restoring the often massive cuts
I feel somewhat guilty about not liking this performance, and I cannot figure out why Covent Garden would have bothered to immortalize it on video.
