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In his Missa Solemnis, Beethoven grasped heavenward hoping to touch the face of a God he could neither see nor hear, in a supreme effort
If you’re in the market for a recording of Handel’s “serenade” for three voices (which actually plays more like a mini-opera for three characters), look
Alexander Grechaninov composed his Symphony No. 5 in 1936 in Paris, where he lived before emigrating to the United States, where the work was premiered
Most opera lovers by now are familiar with Armida and her crew: Handel, Gluck, and any number of other composers were mad over the story
There have been a nice handful of recordings of this fascinating oratorio over the years, and if L’Allegro doesn’t have the allure of Messiah or
Sylvain Cambreling offers up a rhythmically slack, emotionally neutered Romeo and Juliet, denying Berlioz’s highly original yet sprawling masterpiece the crisp articulation, pointed accents, and
Wieland Wagner’s stripped-down, minimalist Bayreuth Festival staging of his grandfather’s Parsifal finally met its aural equivalent when Pierre Boulez first conducted the opera in 1966,
Bach’s Magnificat radiates spiritual joy and compositional daring, qualities Helmuth Rilling broaches but never quite embraces in his new recording of this popular work. This
Starting with The Valkyrie, Chandos launches its long-awaited edition of the English National Opera’s live Ring Cycle from the 1970s, conducted by Reginald Goodall and
La favorite is one of Donizetti’s last operas, and one of the few he composed for Paris. It debuted in December of 1840 and was
