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Even 40 or so years after it was written, Charles Ives’ Psalm 90 still seemed radically, ingeniously cool to a certain familiar bunch of ’60s-era
These very early works, dating from the mid to late 1950s, reveal Schnittke’s talent from the outset of his career. This is by no means
William Alwyn is a composer I usually enjoy, but his only opera, Miss Julie, is a failure. The story, described by Strindberg, the original playwright,
The Chicago Symphony under the leadership of Henry Fogel started the trend of releasing its own recordings, initially as a fundraising opportunity, so it was
Ned Rorem had long wished to compose a concert-length piece that would sum up his life’s work as a composer of art songs. A commission
Of the four available recordings of this great opera–Rossini’s last comedy–this is the weakest but is not entirely dismissible. It has charm, life, and energy
The Golden Legend, one of a number of dramatic cantatas Arthur Sullivan composed apart from the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, was enormously popular during
Ciro in Babilonia was Rossini’s first opera seria. Actually, it was performed during Lent, 1812, and the just-20-year-old composer had to call it a “dramma
Donizetti’s Il diluvio universale was premiered in 1830 during Lent. It is, of course, an opera on a religious theme, but it was also a
Zarzuela, that vaguely undefinable type of musical theater particular to Spain, is an amalgam of opera, operetta, and what we know as musical comedy. Some
