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If you have any sort of American Music section as part of your CD collection, consider this a “must have” disc. On it you will
This collection, a 2-disc “limited edition” compilation in DG’s “Original Masters” series, is an eminently satisfying representation of performances from what may be referred to
Robert Starer’s K’li zemer concerto will be a surprise to anyone who associates the term with weddings and bar mitzvahs. Actually the Yiddish klezmer (instrumental
Pierre Boulez’s Roméo et Juliette is brilliantly played by the Cleveland Orchestra and conducted with a transparency that allows details to emerge clearly, even in
Though Schütz never composed a Vespers service, Peter Neumann and the Kölner Kammerchor and the Collegium Cartusianum offer a hypothetical “idealized” reconstruction drawn primarily from
Dohnanyi leads a Beethoven Ninth distinguished by its forward focus, visceral energy, and most certainly the Cleveland Orchestra’s exquisitely polished and boldly projected playing. The
Renata Scotto was one of the leading sopranos of the 1960s, a mainstay of the Met and the big European houses, and one of the
This abbreviated (by about 25 minutes), sung-in-English, live performance of Cellini was taped in Boston in 1975; it’s primarily (possibly solely) of interest to fans
This is the same performance I reviewed on Myto (for my comments, type Q6665 in Search Reviews). The sound quality is essentially the same (it
Marin Alsop follows up her excellent Samuel Barber series for Naxos with works by her one-time mentor, Leonard Bernstein. For the most part, she and
