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This is grand verismo opera at its grandest, which is to say, very loud and almost unremitting, but nonetheless viscerally thrilling. It has the extra
If you love Verdi’s Requiem as much as I do you can get awfully picky about modern recordings of the work. But there’s not much
Director Richard Jones has brought a one-dimensional concept to Munich’s new Lohengrin, recorded in July, 2009. Just as his dark, joyless Hänsel und Gretel at
This muddy-sounding air check from September 19, 1958 is being touted as a rare opportunity to hear the fine Dutch soprano Gré Brouwenstijn as Fidelio,
John Butt and his Dunedin Consort & Players are back with another large-scale Bach masterpiece, performed in accordance with Joshua Rifkin’s fascinating, exhaustively-researched arguments for
Although neither Edmund Rubbra nor Patrick Hadley is a major name in the history of choral music, programming these two 20th century British composers together
It is now believed that when Verdi said he wanted an “ugly voice” for Lady Macbeth he was overstating his case: what he did not
This is an odd performance. Despite mid-level singing mostly by voices that are not world-class, it has a little-engine-that-could way about it that makes it
You would think that with more than 20 recordings of this opera available, with the likes of Caballé, Sills, Sutherland, Gencer, Gruberova, and Janet Baker
There are some of Bach’s finest choral movements among the five cantatas featured on these two CDs, works intended for the second and third Sundays
