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Just as the Nikolaus Lehnhoff/Kent Nagano Parsifal is now the finest available on DVD, so has the same team scored brilliantly with this Lohengrin. Taped
Around 1903 Scriabin first conceived the idea of Mysterium, a seven day and seven night spritual/artistic experience incorporating music, poetry, visual effects, dancing, and chanting.
It’s somehow fitting that this new coupling of Berlioz and Ravel song cycles should be released at the same time that we learn of the
Try as I might to be objective and let musical values speak for themselves, I confess that I came to this recording in a cynical
Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide is an often-wounded musical masterpiece. The injuries invariably have been inflicted by the non-musical portions of the presentation. First there was
On the whole this is a beautiful performance, well thought-out and carefully shaped in all of its details. Kent Nagano takes great pains over transitions
This may not be the best-sung Mahler Symphony No. 8 on disc (though it’s very good), but as an artistic conception of the work I
Director Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s re-interpretation of Wagner’s religious festival play is controversial. In notes accompanying this 3-DVD set, he says that “Parsifal is an endgame in
Long thought lost and apparently only recently rediscovered, the two song-symphonies Landschaften and Menschheit have much in common. In a conceptual sense, both clearly are
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
