
Far more than their pictorial associations suggest, these two works are about great orchestral playing. It doesn’t matter how “personal” or unique the interpretation might
This is the third recording of Kullervo to appear in SACD multichannel sound in just the past few months (the others being Davis on LSO
Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov is equally likely to use elements from classical, ethnic, or popular sources in his music. His opera Ainadamar fuses Spanish, Flamenco,
Donald Runnicles leads this fine program of shadowy, late-Romantic music with an assured hand. His Prelude to Tristan und Isolde is taken very broadly and
Telarc’s new SACD remastering, which allows the full range of the original 50khz recordings to be heard for the first time, brings added clarity and
This stereo SACD harks back to the beginning of the digital age, when Telarc’s stunning LP (released in 1978) caused a sensation in many an
No one knew when Robert Shaw made this recording in November, 1999, that it would not only be a crowning personal achievement for the conductor
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
This lively, lusty, stunningly recorded new Carmina Burana goes right to the top of the heap, sharing pride of place with the celebrated performances of
This Alvin Singleton collection originally was released on Nonesuch in 1989. Singleton composes in more or less typical late-20th-century style that skirts the edges of