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You can’t go wrong with Werner Güra’s traversal of Schumann’s best-known song cycles. He displays an attractive, fine-grained timbre, especially in his ravishing soft singing,
This CD features a series of arias each sung by two tenors–a very entertaining and enlightening exercise. If I had to generalize, I’d say that
This is a thoughtful, small-scaled, pious (rather than dramatic) reading of Messiah. With both chorus and period-instrument orchestra numbering less than 30 each, everything is
Le Villi was Puccini’s first opera, and while it contains some fine music–a soprano romanza that’s as lovely as anything he later wrote, a handsome
Here we have one complete Norma and highlights (about an hour and 20 minutes) from three other performances of the opera, with Leyla Gencer–the “Pirate
Nocturne (from Quo Vadis) is a reissue taken from a 1988 Unicorn-Kanchana release, and now that the complete work is available from Chandos its presence
This bauble–an “intermezzo” very much like Pergolesi’s better-known La serva padrona–concerns a full-of-himself gentleman (Don Narciso) who, in search of a new female conquest, happens
There are some wonderful things about this performance, most of them coming from the Tamino of Fritz Wunderlich, who lives up to his reputation as
It’s very brave of any opera company to undertake a performance of this sprawling work, one that requires a bevy of virtuoso singers, a huge
Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller’s musical reputation rests on his large number of songs, many of which have become popular favorites in his native Denmark. The two
