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This double-disc package from Universal’s Panorama series combines serviceable performances of a number of key Handel works. It should have instant appeal to budget-minded collectors
In general, this is an exceptional bargain offering, uniting several benchmark interpretations with a number of more puzzling inclusions that could have been bettered, at
Here’s another first rate addition to DG’s Panorama series, a series that seems to alternate intelligently planned compilations with programs that look like they’ve been
The view of this particular Panorama is obscured, first by Leonard Bernstein’s clunky, mutilated second recording of Rhapsody in Blue, and second by James Levine’s
Maria Stuarda is one third of the so-called “three queen” trilogy that defined much of the career of Beverly Sills (along with Lucia, the three
Let’s see now, Universal has outstanding recordings of Dvorák’s Ninth Symphony “From the New World” by (at least) Fricsay (DG), Giulini (DG), Kubelik (three: Mercury
Neeme Järvi’s re-recording of this repertoire with the Gothenburg Symphony for Deutsche Grammophon does not improve upon his earlier versions on BIS. In fact, his
Takemitsu was in the process of writing a flute concerto for Patrick Gallois when he died in 1996 at the comparatively young age of 65.
Leonard Bernstein wrote more music for his ill-fated 1976 musical with Alan Jay Lerner, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, than for any of his other theater projects.
Richard Strauss’ The Legend of Joseph was composed in 1912 on a commission from Diaghalev’s Ballet Russe to a scenario by Hugo von Hofmansthal recounting
