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This exciting, fun-filled Fledermaus always has had one fatal flaw, which I will get to in a moment. On the plus side are Carlos Kleiber’s
Since its world premiere at the Opéra de Lyon, France, in March 1998, Peter Eötvös’ Three Sisters has received instant recognition, with several new productions
The Sleeping Beauty is the greatest of Tchaikovsky’s three ballets, containing all of the composer’s stylistic hallmarks: exquisite melodies, colorful orchestration, rhythm, drama, and passion,
Elliott Carter’s new orchestral work, Symphonia, has a Latin subtitle that translates as “I am the prize of flowing hope,” and is taken (as was
Here’s another flawless entry in cellist Mischa Maisky’s nearly foolproof formula for successful recordings: find the world’s most beautiful tunes by the best composers, and
Kurt Weill’s collaborations with Bertolt Brecht in the late 1920s and early ’30s captured the angst, despair, and decadence of post-Weimar Germany with determined zest
Rosalyn Tureck’s 1952/3 mono Well-Tempered Clavier has long been sought after by collectors, many of whom have been willing to pay through the nose for
A decade or so ago, Giuseppe Sinopoli and the New York Philharmonic recorded these Scriabin works for Deutsche Grammophon. The results were a classic example
This CD is comprised of six orchestral songs composed by Richard Strauss between 1896 and 1906 (some were orchestrated later) and the Four Last Songs
These performances will doubtless provoke very extreme and opposite reactions among listeners. Krystian Zimerman built an orchestra from scratch for the sole purpose of recording(and
