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Although Reynaldo Hahn’s 1921 Piano Quintet was popular in its day, it somehow fell between the cracks and remained largely unknown for decades. Just why
It’s remarkable how Nikolai Miaskovsky’s final symphony, composed in 1949, sounds as if it had been written even earlier than his 1923 Symphony No. 6.
Somehow Federico Colli’s penchant for affetuoso contrivance works better in Bach than in his impossibly mannered debut release devoted to Scarlatti. His brisk and joyful
It’s amazing that this music remains so little known; it’s simply wonderful. None of Boccherini’s symphonies require trumpets and drums, most feature some sort of
As with his recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, John Wilson similarly subjects the team’s follow-up musical Carousel to inclusive textual rectitude. Here Wilson aims
This compilation of reissues makes for an excellent Shostakovich disc.
In 2021, amid the COVID pandemic, Chandos honored Australian composer
Lukas Foss composed Griffelkin for the NBC television network, which broadcast the opera on November 6, 1955. Although Griffelkin is based on a children’s fable,
[A re-post from our archives in memory of conductor Andrew Davis, February 2, 1944-April 20, 2024.] Neither an opera nor an oratorio, this unique work–certainly
It’s well known that Elgar contemplated an oratorio trilogy based
