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Note complete, artfully sung, stunningly played if foggily recorded, and excitingly, wisely conducted (with one exception), this new Lucia still doesn’t come close to supplanting
Here’s how you make an “American” ballet: First, choose a super-American topic (such as the building of the Union Pacific railway); second, use quirky, off-kilter
As might be expected, Leonard Slatkin turns in stylish and idiomatic performances of these established Bernstein classics. He hasn’t quite Lenny’s manic energy in such
Debussy’s characterization of Grieg’s short piano pieces as “bon-bons filled with snow” is happily contradicted by Kyoko Tabe’s crisp, purposeful pianism. She projects the lyric
Dutch composer Matthijs Vermeulen’s wildly complex and inventive music resists easy classification, and yet it does not really do his work justice to say it
Avoiding the tendency toward nationalist spirit that motivated his Polish colleagues, Mieczyslaw Karlowicz’s music cleaves to the lush late-Romantic orchestral sound world and heavy-handed philosophical
Musically speaking, I’m not sure that it was a good idea for Chandos to mix compositions by the Berkeleys, father and son. At least on
Glazunov’s Third symphony is far less stylistically assured than its immediate predecessor, a fact acknowledged even by his most ardent supporters, including Rimsky-Korsakov. When it’s
First of all, in order to enjoy this compilation taken from Chandos’ Opera in English series, you have to be untroubled by the prospect of
Chandos’ entry of Reinecke symphonies is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, we can finally assemble a complete set together with Naxos’ recording of
