
At time of writing this performance is still available, so […]
How well I remember attending Sweeney Todd, not long after Stephen Sondheim’s musical thriller opened in the spring of 1979. I was familiar with Sondheim’s
John Adams’ 25-minute On the Transmigration of Souls was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to mark the first anniversary of September 11, 2001. While
Kurt Masur leads a devotional account of the Missa solemnis, and many listeners will miss the “heaven-storming” qualities so evident in recordings by Bernstein, Klemperer,
There’s an unwritten rule that many artists do their best work in repertoire that seems atypical of their style or predilections. Such is the case