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The Genova-based Dynamic label has built up a large catalog […]
Taken live from the stage of the Macerata (Italy) Festival in July and August of 2016, this performance has much to recommend it despite the
Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870), composer of 60 operas, was once up there with Bellini and Donizetti; his operas have taken longer to find 20th and 21st
Having been enchanted with Cecilia Bartoli’s CD of arias by the 17th century composer Agostino Steffani and knocked out by his opera, Niobe, I was
In Gabriele Baldocci’s hands the Beethoven/Liszt “Eroica” symphony transcription conveys impressive, multi-leveled pianistic sheen. The long first movement stands out for the pianist’s subtle coloristic
Dead center of what Verdi referred to as his “galley years” comes Giovanna d’Arco. It is his seventh opera, and though not as bad as
The text for Artaserse is by Metastasio, that opera seria funster who probably made a better living than most of the composers for whom he
Just when you think that the Richard Strauss 150th birthday year (2014) had run its course with new releases, reissues, and rarities, along comes a
Unlike many Bach works adapted for guitar, the keyboard-specific intricacies of the Goldberg Variations do not easily lend themselves to six strings. In the late
Not long after I reviewed Gabriele Baldocci’s superb recording of the Beethoven/Liszt First and Sixth symphonies, a CD arrived in the mail containing a live
