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As with previous releases in this series, Oleg Caetani has strong and musically rewarding ideas about how this piece should go. He begins the first
We expected to see a plethora of new Verdi recordings in 2001 (the 100th anniversary of his death), and it’s good to see that some
Had the recordings with Marilyn Horne and Samuel Ramey in 1980 or Giulietta Simionato and Cesare Valletti in 1954 never appeared, this 1978 dark-horse candidate
This peculiar 1975 studio performance is an interesting failure. All four lead singers are fine enough artists; none is very impressive or alluring here. Bruno
About 35 of the 66 minutes on this CD are taken up with performances of three of Rossini’s most popular overtures, and while the readings
This recording celebrates not only the season of Christmas but also the longstanding Italian tradition of music for mandolin (including mandolin, mandola, mandoloncello, and mandolone).
Like a Christmas tree on which every family member has placed his or her favorite ornament–an assortment that inevitably ranges from the beautiful and finely
Weber’s clarinet concertos are truly beautiful exercises in the art of instrumental bel canto, and it’s always a pleasure to hear them, particularly when performed
Since this 1994 recital, guitarist Edoardo Catemario has turned his attention almost exclusively to 20th century repertoire, recording three such CDs (including the complete guitar
It’s common to denigrate Haydn’s keyboard concertos for not being as great as Mozart’s despite the fact that most are early works, and certainly none
