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Vivaldi concertos

The virtues of the English Concert in Vivaldi (indeed in more or less anything) are well known: stylish but urbane, technically and stylistically well-founded, and

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Pletnev Bells

This is a curious reading of The Bells. Mikhail Pletnev seems more attuned to the mystical and profound aspects of Edgar Allen Poe’s tome than

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GREGORIAN CHANT

This two-disc release in Universal’s Panorama series offers a musical survey of the church year sung in traditional Benedictine style. The male singers of the

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fricsay don giovanni dg

Recorded in 1958, this Don Giovanni’s prime attraction is Ferenc Fricsay’s crisp, forward-moving conducting. The tempos are swift, almost as though Fricsay can’t wait to

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