
Dohnányi’s Mahler recordings stand among the biggest disappointments of his […]
Christoph von Dohnányi used to remark wryly that whenever he
I’m in a bit of a fix. When this 21-CD
Okay, finally, here is Colin Davis’ Sibelius from Boston, all
At this point Eric Whitacre could lend his name to a line of spaghetti sauce, frozen dinners, clothing—hey, why not a video game?—and his enormous
First released on the French Auvidis label in the early 1990s, Philippe Cassard’s Debussy piano music cycle returns to the catalog as a budget-priced boxed-set
In the interest of full disclosure: I have been a fan of Eric Whitacre’s music ever since the spring of 2001 when I heard a
Benjamin Britten’s cantata Saint Nicolas is one of the more remarkable creations in 20th century music–for its subject (stories of the 4th-century Bishop’s life), its
The 1950s may have been vaguely Golden-Age but this is a bronze-ish performance of Trovatore, and there are at least a half-dozen available sets that
First, Sony gave us “THE Italian Tenor”, Vittorio Grigolo; now Decca brings us “The Maltese Tenor”. We first heard Joseph Calleja on disc in 2004