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James Levine raised the MET orchestra to an exceptionally high standard in his decades as its Music Director, so as with Vienna it only makes
The best thing about this Elgar Panorama is that it restores Leonard Bernstein’s colorful–and controversial–Enigma Variations to the catalog. From the day it was released
These recordings, from the late-1970s flowering of the period-performance movement, remain among the finest renditions of Bach’s four Orchestral Suites. The crisp articulation, lively dance-rhythms,
Boris Tishchenko provides splendid orchestrations of three absolutely wonderful song cycles. Satires, originally composed for Galina Vishnevskaya, is a flat-out masterpiece, as much for Sasha
Of all the many arrangements/transcriptions that have been made of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Sitkovetsky’s version for string trio is perhaps the most logical, sensible, and
This disc was released a very long time ago everywhere but in the U.S., and it’s very puzzling that Universal took so long to make
With all of the uproar that the Joyce Hatto scandal has engendered, most critics, newsgroup posters, and other classical music authorities overlooked the possibility that
This 1992 Das Klagende Lied is one of the better items from Giuseppe Sinopoli’s uneven Mahler cycle. Recorded live, the performance has a winning spontaneity
This new production of Bellini’s Norma by Jürgen Rose (sets, costumes, stage direction, and lighting) to honor Edita Gruberova’s first staged assumption of the title
Anna Bolena premiered in 1830 and was Donizetti’s first great success–and it remains one of his finest works. Aside from his usual endless fount of
