Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
This raucously recorded Ariodante is very exciting. Taped live in Munich in January, 2000, it has the whiff of theater about it, and conductor Ivor
Deutsche Grammophon’s new SACD transfer brings added presence and impact to Herbert von Karajan’s 1962 Beethoven Ninth–the best of his three stereo efforts. Karajan’s focused
Premiered at La Scala in 1820, this opera was a grand success. It is a semi-seria; that is, with possible tragic elements along the way,
Once we get the obvious out of the way–that from 1950 to 1964 (and arguably both before and since) Maria Callas was the greatest Norma
This is the 1754 revision of Rameau’s 1737 masterpiece. The earlier version was coolly received as a result of the Lulliste-Ramiste battles that were waged
Those who missed Christophe Coin’s three earlier recordings for Astrée devoted to Bach’s cantatas featuring arias with prominent violoncello piccolo accompaniment will delight in this
This 2-disc set is a reconstruction of a “let’s pretend” event, described in the booklet as “a service of Solemn Vespers for the Assumption of
Christus am Ölberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives) is Beethoven’s only oratorio, and while the 1803 work hardly measures up to the peaks of
Haflidi Hallgrímsson’s dark and dramatic Passia is based on texts by 20th century Icelandic poets, as well as on the Passiusalmar (Hymns of Passion) by
No, don’t groan. Arthur Sullivan was too good a composer to allow himself to get bogged down in dreary oratorio-isms, responding instead to what after
