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The British bass John Tomlinson is a very impressive singing actor with a big resonant voice, and it and his art are beautifully captured here
Verdi’s Requiem as a party record? Yes, if it’s saddled with the vocally challenged Andrea Bocelli. Lots of laughs here from the tenor: listen to
The tragic depths of Verdi’s Rigoletto aren’t explored in this blunt 1950 performance. Leonard Warren’s assumption of the title role is the prime interest. He
Robert Shaw’s amazing choral prowess shows in the sumptuous sound of this Glagolitic Mass. As in many of his Atlanta performances, Shaw is more attuned
Sixteenth-century Italian composer Orazio Vecchi not only was a priest concerned with sacred music (he wrote a number of masses and motets and was responsible
This identical program appears on a Koch-Schwann release in which Jacques Houtmann conducts the Liège Symphony Orchestra with chorus and soloists, but the new Naxos
Aging boomers may recall seeing Cesare Siepi on stage. He was Ezio Pinza’s successor as the Metropolitan Opera’s reigning bass and, among other accomplishments, the
The best things about this Verdi Requiem are the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Daniel Barenboim’s exciting interpretation, and the male soloists, in that order.
J.S. Bach’s talent seems to flow in his grandson’s blood at least as strongly as in any of his sons. Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach’s two
Thomas Beecham’s 1937/38 Magic Flute, the work’s first studio recording (minus spoken dialogue), was highly regarded in its day for both sonic and musical qualities.
