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For background and plot of this opera, composed in 1940, given a private performance in ’42 but never performed during the composer’s lifetime, please refer
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,
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
Benjamin Britten’s cantata Saint Nicolas is one of the more remarkable creations in 20th century music–for its subject (stories of the 4th-century Bishop’s life), its
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
Maria di Rohan, one of Donizetti’s last operas, is also one of his leanest. It was composed for Vienna in 1843 for an audience that
Imagine sitting for nearly two uninterrupted hours listening solely to sacred choral music by Vivaldi. Normally I would think of that as something that should
Haydn’s Mass in Time of War is known in Germany as the Paukenmesse (Timpani Mass), owing to Haydn’s extraordinarily ominous use of solo drums in
