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There’s far too much music here to discuss the performances in detail–more than 30 works in all, many containing multiple pieces–so I’m going to have
Any fan of lieder knows that there are at least a zillion Schubert recitals on disc, performed by all manner of singers, from “golden era”
There are many other collections of Orthodox music on CD, mostly from Russian choirs, the majority recorded or released since the collapse of the Soviet
No musical realm is more alive and fertile regarding the production and performance of new works than that of choral and vocal music. Of course,
The title of one of the works on this excellent Christmas program is “Oh, What a Wonder!”–and that also could aptly describe the disc as
In case you may be wondering, this is the same recording released in 2005 and very favorably reviewed here–type Q8668 in Search Reviews. That original
The world is not exactly bereft of excellent Die schöne Müllerin recordings. Yet there’s always room for one as masterful and communicative as Werner Güra’s
Paul Lewis’ Harmonia Mundi Beethoven cycle jumps to the brink of completion with another three-disc volume. The pianist cultivates a beautiful sonority, sorting out balances
This is a strange performance. We expect Philippe Herreweghe to turn in some kind of “Bruckner lite”, with swift tempos and his period-instrument approach–whatever that
The Jerusalem Quartet’s first disc of Haydn quartets was very good, but as my colleague Dan Davis pointed out, its only defect was a tendency
