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This SACD is a vocal/orchestral collection by San Francisco composer Gordon Getty: four choral works and an operatic scene. The music has a kind of
The Snow Maiden was premiered in 1882 to great acclaim throughout Russia. Its success is easily contemplated; after all, it’s based on one of the
No doubt, because of the conductor and esteemed performers involved, this new Messiah, recorded live in Vienna’s Musikvereinsaal in December 2004, will receive a high
This 1977 performance boasts the finest Dulcamara on disc–Geraint Evans–in a performance both unique in its lack of buffo bluster and in its remarkable “face”;
Premiered in 1930 but composed a few years earlier, Okon Fuoko stands with the Second and Third Symphonies as one of Leevi Madetoja’s orchestral masterpieces.
I’m never quite sure exactly who these raid-the-archives Christmas music compilations are for, but if you enjoyed DG’s earlier “Original Masters” release, The Christmas Album
If you want to know what perfect legato singing is, listen to Carlo Bergonzi’s Alfredo; if you want to hear pianissimos that startle with their
The Bells is the bright spot in Charles Dutoit’s otherwise lackluster Rachmaninov Symphony cycle for Decca. Here he conducts with a welcome alacrity, enlivening rhythms
Griselda was first performed in Rome in 1721, the last of Alessandro Scarlatti’s 70-or-so operas. Whether it was due to changing tastes or financial considerations,
The centerpiece of this 2-CD release is the Brünnhilde of Frida Leider, whose recording career took place mostly in the pre-electrical age, and so the
