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Leonardo Balada’s tragic-comic chamber opera Hangman! Hangman! is a free adaptation of an American cowboy folksong. Johnny is about to be hanged for horse theft,
Volume 3 of the Naxos/Schnabel Beethoven sonata cycle from the 1930s begins with the great Op. 10 No. 3, where the pianist’s fiery, headlong traversals
Dmitry Yablonsky’s new Swan Lake recording represents one of the few instances in which Naxos breaks its general policy of non-duplicating repertoire. Yet there’s significant
Mischa Levitzki (1898-1941) was one of the most popular American pianists of his era. He made quite a few recordings prior to his sudden death
Benjamin Frith is no stranger to Naxos customers, having previously graced the catalog with a Mendelssohn cycle, John Field’s Nocturnes, and other releases. Here he
The Boston-born composer William Mason (1829-1908) may be less known today than his musical kin (his brother Henry co-founded Mason and Hamlin Pianos, and his
This splendid Naxos Historical series issue is especially welcome since it focuses on Richard Tauber’s early acoustic lieder recordings, including six of Schumann’s Dichterliebe songs.
The world doesn’t need another recording of Werther, since so many terrific ones are available: the glorious 1931 Vallin-Thill set; Victoria de los Angeles still
This disc duplicates exactly the contents of an RCA CD by the late Antonio de Almeida and the Bamberg Symphony containing performances rather more strongly
Recorded with the usual dryness at NBC’s Studio 8H, this well-restored concert sounds rather good considering the date (April 9th, 1944). Prosaic sonorities from the
