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Uplifting, imaginative music in many varieties gushed from Agustín Barrios’ fecund brain directly into his agile hands and perpetually singing guitar. John Williams’ landmark Barrios
The two concerto recordings Vladimir Horowitz made in the early 1940s under the watchful baton of his father-in-law Arturo Toscanini were best sellers in their
This is the 1762 Vienna version of Orfeo ed Euridice, taken from live performances at the Drottningholm Theatre and led by Arnold Östman, whose recorded
If you love violin miniatures–and there are 39 of them on this 70-minute program–most of which are composed in a quaint if solidly constructed Victorian
What would have been a relatively pleasing hour of listening is marred by an inexplicably harsh recording that gives pointed presence to the lute but
Impressive playing from the Philadelphia Orchestra’s first chair violist Roberto Diaz marks this generally fine recording of works by Henri Vieuxtemps. In the B-flat major
This is not really an oratorio by Handel. Rather, it is a pastiche–arias “borrowed” from Handel’s operas, oratorios, anthems, and cantatas–put together (and including recitatives
Here’s a bargain-hunter alert: 76 minutes of Richard Tauber recordings made in his prime, truthfully transferred by Ward Marston, and including a representative sampling of
This is probably the cleanest transfer available of this Glyndebourne Festival Figaro, recorded in 1934 and 1935. It always was more interesting as a document
Few schools of composition have proven more self-consciously avant-garde (in the most horrible, unlistenable sense) than the “modern Italian”. As in Germany, the reasons for
