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In my review of the only other performance of this […]
Time flies! Marco Polo is already on Volume 18 of this series, and the problem with publishing complete collections of this music (as with Johann
Leopold Godowsky’s 1925 Java Suite consists of 12 piano pieces inspired by the sights and sounds he absorbed during his Indonesian concert tour. For the
Now on Naxos, here is Waxman’s splendid music for Raoul Walsh’s 1945 World War II epic Objective Burma, a film that starred Erroll Flynn. John
Marco Polo’s excellent Joly Braga Santos series continues with an enterprising release consisting of orchestral works from all periods of the composer’s creative life. The
Talk about politically incorrect! This opera, based on a play by Voltaire and first presented at La Scala in 1817, presents the prophet Mohammed (“Maometto”,
Although this delightful ballet’s story (a boy and girl in a provincial village find love despite psychotically grumpy parents) practically defines the word “slender”, the
Volume 6 of Marco Polo’s Leopold Godowsky cycle focuses on Schubert, or rather Godowsky’s rewriting Schubert to suit his pianocentric agenda. Liszt’s transcriptions of Schubert
Anton Schweitzer (1735-87) was the music director at the Weimar court at the same time that the German poet Christoph Martin Wieland (who is given
It’s hard to believe that no one before now has made a complete recording of this, one of Korngold’s most famous and beloved film scores–but
