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Yvonne Kenny is a wonderful singer, with a pliable, shimmering tone, a technique that allows her to sing at many dynamic levels from ppp to
Víteslav Novák was a member of the talented “in-between” generation of Czech composers, making his name at the turn of the 20th century, after Smetana
So this is how the Party Leaders wanted it done, eh? After the purges and denunciations of those troublesome “formalist” composers, including Shostakovich and Prokofiev,
This recording, captured live at the London Coliseum in 1977, finds Dame Janet Baker at her absolute best–which is saying a great deal about a
Those expecting the grandeur of Sibelius’s great symphonies or his sweeping tone poems will be disappointed by this collection of modest, sometimes understated works for
Nino Rota (1911-79) will probably always be known as the composer of music to The Godfather (1971) and to the earlier Italian film masterpiece, La
Charles-Marie Widor’s Third Symphony for organ and orchestra makes a perfect companion to the famous Saint-Saëns Third for the same forces, and I’m amazed that
When asked why his Mozart performances lacked the Romantic warmth of Bruno Walter’s interpretations, George Szell retorted, “I cannot put chocolate sauce on asparagus!” It’s
What an exquisite CD! It contains a generous selection of Elizabethan and Jacobean lute songs by the illustrious John Dowland and his contemporaries, beautifully sung
Rarely do we feel the presence of Bach so vividly on a recording as we do here with this set of Trio Sonata arrangements, performed
