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Just when you thought you’d heard it all, along comes […]
Ernest Bloch’s orchestral music is pretty wonderful, and this disc shows off his range with particular success. True, the Poèmes are largely slow and droopy,
Recorded in Baden-Baden in 2011, this Nicolas Lehnhoff-directed production draws vivid and valid characterizations and motivations. Salome’s isolation, her sado-masochistic relationship with Herod, Herodias’ grotesque,
The CD’s title and its “Victor/Victoria” cover tells us a lot about this almost 81-minute recital, but not everything. Seeing as how Joyce DiDonato is
Updated to nowhere in particular, some time in the 20th century, this weird, modern-dress Forza gets in its own way. Images of fate and coincidence
The title of this CD translates as “Voice of Longing”, and is taken from a poem by Carl Busse (1872-1918). In it, he represents longing
The only serious competition for this new recording of Havergal Brian’s visionary, sometimes magnificent, sometimes loony “Gothic” Symphony comes from the Naxos/Marco Polo recording featuring
The 1950s may have been vaguely Golden-Age but this is a bronze-ish performance of Trovatore, and there are at least a half-dozen available sets that
Ravishing orchestral playing and choral work combined with an unmatchable understanding of Verdi makes this, despite some issues with regard to the soloists, a very
It might have been something special to hear Karajan’s Berlin Philharmonic play Mahler’s Resurrection symphony (it recorded a spectacular Ninth with him in 1982), but
