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This very fine and thoughtfully programmed Christmas recording resulted from a concert presented at London’s Royal Festival Hall in December 2009. The highlight here is
Britten’s masterpiece–the greatest English opera since Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and arguably not equaled even by Britten–has done very well on disc. You might say
In the old days–say, 10 or 15 years ago–in order for a label to offer a compilation for a performer, said performer had to have
Every 10 years or so, record companies like to root around their catalogs, resurrect good samples, pair them up differently from their original incarnations, and
There are a few slower performances of Brahms’ German Requiem on disc–at least strictly in terms of minutes–but surely none feels slower or more tediously,
There was a time, youngsters take note, when a performance of this symphony was a Major Event and not just another subscription night at the
As one can gather from some of the titles of the operas represented in this collection, this CD is part of Chandos’ ongoing “Opera in
Anna Bolena took Milan by storm at the end of December, 1830, and it was heard all over Italy in the following months; in May
I still remember how exciting it was to discover these marvelous tone poems: the mysterious darkness of November Woods, the watery depths of The Garden
It’s a tribute to Vladimir Jurowski’s achievement here that there’s less difference in quality between the First and Sixth symphonies than often is the case.
