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Listeners accustomed to deliberate and devotional interpretations of Wagner’s Parsifal are in for something completely different here. Although the booklet notes liken Herbert Kegel’s unusually
This disc completes Marin Alsop’s Samuel Barber orchestral music traversal for Naxos. Overall, it is a distinguished collection, and although this wrap-up falters a bit,
Performing early music–say, works from the 12th through 15th centuries–is a kind of time travel that often involves imagination as much as solid scholarship. We
There seems to be increased interest these days in the music of Spanish composers, both those who worked in Europe as well as in Central
Carlisle Floyd’s latest opera, premiered at the Houston Grand Opera in 2000, is based on a novel by Olive Burns, and it’s a fine, down-home,
Notwithstanding its admirable points, Naxos’ studio recording of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde faces heavy-hitting competition on all fronts. You might describe the engineering as a
When this recording was made 40 years ago it had a lot going for it, and in many ways it still does. The three vocalists
This is a lovely program of mostly secular vocal and instrumental works of the Burgundian school when it was at its creative zenith. The influence
Audiophiles and orchestral enthusiasts alike have long cherished Paul Paray’s late-’50s/early-’60s Mercury Living Presence recordings with the Detroit Symphony devoted to French showpieces. Here, five
Mezzo-soprano Conchita Supervia’s recordings were all made within a five-year span–1927-32. Fortunately, she was at the height of her career at the time (she died
