
The third volume in Naxos’ chronological survey of Enrico Caruso’s recordings offers a generous sampling of the celebrated tenor’s greatest hits. Start with track 8,
Volume Four of Naxos’ complete, chronological Caruso collection (how’s that for alliteration!) brings us to 1908-10. These were prime years for the legendary tenor, and
This collection, excellently mastered by Ward Marston, presents the mature Caruso, recorded 1916-17. The voice had broadened by 1916 but had lost none of its
Canteloube’s setting of folk songs from France’s Auvergne region is a sure-fire hit. The music is catchy, full of delightful oboe and wind solos, snappy
Begun and dropped by Weber in the very early 1820s and completed by Mahler in 1886 from sketches and other works by Weber (a song
The main question confronting interpreters of Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes concerns text: Do you include all, some, or none of the five variations published after the
After a few hundred years of experimenting with and perfecting various ways of writing tonal music for strings, and another 50 or so of more
Robert Russell Bennett led a double life both as a composer in his own right and as Broadway’s most successful orchestrator. The two works coupled
There have been only a handful of recordings of Michael Tippett’s oratorio A Child of Our Time–André Previn and the RPO, Colin Davis and the
Naxos is putting together a very good Vaughan Williams symphony cycle, featuring exciting performances on the whole, and this newcomer is no exception. Paul Daniel