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Corsican tenor César Vezzani (1888-1951) was the owner of a bright, shining, virile voice that sailed easily up to high-Bs and Cs with musicality, grace,
One of Bach’s more magnificent extended choruses graces the cantata BWV 12, and another less substantial but no less impressive one dominates BWV 38. These
This first, single-CD volume of Haydn’s songs for Scottish publisher George Thomson concludes with a very interesting item: Macpherson’s Farewell, to a text (mostly) by
Telemann’s instrumental music is far better known than his vocal and choral works, but it shouldn’t be. The collection of motets and psalm settings presented
Leif Ove Andsnes’ ongoing Schubert sonata series reaches its apogee with one of the most perceptive, sensitively phrased, and technically cultivated interpretations of the sublime
Georg Solti offers a big Bohème, with many moments of real excitement along with some strangely slow tempos in the third act and a bit
The 13 brief movements of Christopher Theofanidis’ The Here and Now draw upon English translations of poems by Rumi, touching on a wide variety of
Not too many years ago Max Bruch was close to being a “one-hit wonder” in the classical music lists, that hit being his G minor
This 86-minute, black-and-white, 1938 film of Gustave Charpentier’s opera Louise is of interest for several reasons. First, film buffs will revel in Abel Gance’s direction.
Mendelssohn has a reputation as the polite classicist among members of the first wave of German Romantic-era composers, and performers normally can’t go wrong in
