
This is a really fine set of Mozart symphonies, performed in the period style but without a trace of the doctrinaire attitude of so many
How do you characterize a voice like this? The “official” description is “contralto”, but no way is Richard Tucker Award-winner Stephanie Blythe a contralto in
This is a beautiful selection of arias from Handel’s oratorios composed in the latish 1740s. Each one is a gem and David Daniels again proves
Most virtuosos would give their eyeteeth to match Boris Berezovsky’s fleet, impetuous, and inhumanly even fingerwork in the outer movements of both Chopin concertos. Yet
Vivica Genaux’s voice is not the grand, cushioned instrument Marilyn Horne’s was; neither does she have the girlish allure of Teresa Berganza. Her sound is
This is a very fine recording of Mendelssohn’s more-or-less complete music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream that also includes dialogue ably rendered by The Oxford
There have been a nice handful of recordings of this fascinating oratorio over the years, and if L’Allegro doesn’t have the allure of Messiah or
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