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This slim “Collector’s Edition” five-CD box of Haydn Symphonies is […]
Hyperion already has excellent recordings of both of these concertos, from Demidenko (Medtner) and Hough (Rachmaninov), but as they saying goes, “greatness is its own
With a little thought and planning, Universal could have put together a Shostakovich cycle for the ages. You wouldn’t think that this is a composer
These iconic recordings, featuring seven CDs of Herrmann conducting his
Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage, a modern retelling of The Magic Flute, is one of the major 20th-century operas. The music is tuneful, lyrical, bursting with
For all the grotty playing and occasionally screechy sonics, there’s
During the 1970s and 80s scarcely a month went by
Adrian Boult had a thoroughly admirable career as a devoted
I was much taken by Lise Davidsen’s first CD (see reviews archive) and am equally impressed by this, her second. I compared her there to
Goethe proclaimed that “only Mozart” (who had already died) was capable of writing an opera based on his Faust. That did not keep others from
