
[Editor’s Note: This set is available again (1/20) on Amazon.com […]
Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s revisionist assault on Verdi continues. After a disastrous
This remarkable recital is available in Deutsche Harmonia Mundi’s CPE
Remember when it was easy to pick between countertenors? You had Alfred Deller and Russell Oberlin, depending on where you lived. Then along came James
This new recording of Mozart’s Requiem (in the edition I
Telemann composed more than 40 works for the opera house in Hamburg, and Flavius Bertaridus, debuted in November, 1729, is the only one of his
Thomas Arne is best known to most listeners for his charming settings of Shakespeare–songs like “Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind” and “Where the Bee Sucks”.
There have long been rumors circulating that some of Haydn’s operas were genuinely funny, but until this recording I doubted it. Nikolaus Harnoncourt has been
There is little known about the composition of Zaide; Mozart rarely mentions it in correspondence of the period. We do know that he began work
This second volume of early Mozart symphonies features a really biting, vivid performance of the “little G minor” K. 183, with its prominent writing for