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First staged in Milan in 1818, Swiss composer Carlo Soliva’s Giulia e Sesto Pompeo is an almost perfect imitation of the works of the more
Ernst Toch’s string quartets reveal an original voice and a distinct musical personality; his symphonies do likewise. Symphony No. 1 is a fascinating and stimulating
Josef Suk’s Asrael Symphony doesn’t turn up on many orchestral programs these days, and it’s a pity, for as this exciting new live recording from
This opera, Handel’s penultimate, is relatively direct, both in its scoring–just strings and oboes–and its plot: Rosmene (soprano) must choose between Tirinto (mezzo-soprano), whom she
This excellent disc continues CPO’s marvelous and important ongoing survey of Villa-Lobos’ complete symphonies. It’s a mystery to me why anyone would claim that Villa-Lobos
One of Telemann’s later works, this Passion oratorio was composed to a text by Karl Wilhelm Ramler. How it came to be set by both
Receiving its premiere recording here, Sigmund Staden’s Seelewig, composed in 1644, is the earliest extant German opera. It’s basically a morality tale about heroine nymph
Prokofiev’s ballet Sur le Borysthène (On the Dnieper), the story of a violent but not tragic romantic triangle, was composed soon after his 1930 Fourth
Egon Wellesz achieved a measure of success in his adopted homeland of Britain as a distinguished musicologist, but like so many Jewish refugees forced to
