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Björling fans will want to skip the radio-announcer intro (“This hour is yours. . .”) and the pinched-sounding, loose-limbed Semiramide overture by the San Francisco
It must have been in the late 1960s or early ’70s that I first encountered an album called the Baroque Beatles Book. I don’t remember
This 1931 recording of Giordano’s Andrea Chenier turns out to be a second-rate performance of a second-rate work. No one has ever called this opera
Leonardo Balada (b. 1933) is a contemporary Spanish composer heavily influenced by native Catalan folk music who also manages to transcend the imposing presence and
What we have here are the 12 solo sides George Gershwin recorded for Columbia in 1926 and 1928, his abridged 1924 acoustic Rhapsody in Blue,
Arthur Rubinstein recorded the integral Chopin mazurkas three times: once in stereo, once in the mono LP era, and another time for the pioneering 1938/39
Lorenzo Ferrero’s La Nueva España (The New Spain), a cycle of Six Symphonic Poems depicting Spain’s conquest of Mexico in 1521 and the subsequent destruction
Any composer dubbed by Haydn as “one of the greatest geniuses I have met” deserves serious attention. One such was German-born Joseph Martin Kraus. Born
If you’re looking for a budget-priced Brahms D minor Concerto, consider this one. It’s played with distinction, forethought, care, and real individuality. The tumultuous first
This disc offers some rarely heard Rimsky-Korsakov overtures and opera suites (actually, this Maid of Pskov suite stems from incidental music composed for a play
