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Christmas without music is like, well, how can you live without music at Christmas? In the history of the world no other season, holiday, event,
Alexander Glazunov’s brilliantly melodic, brightly colored, vividly orchestrated Fifth fits comfortably within the late-19th-century Russian symphonic style. That Glazunov was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov shows
Werther seems to have edged out Manon in popularity among Massenet’s operas, judging from its numerous recordings. Their many excellences, however, yield pride of place
As part of a series subtitled “Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation”, this program focuses on the Vesper (or Evensong) service canticle (text from the
Another in Naxos’ choral music compilation series subtitled “Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation”, this one features works based either on the psalm text Miserere
To think these 27 selections were recorded nearly 100 years ago! Record making was still in its teething stages when Enrico Caruso first stood before
Among the 78 era’s Schumann Carnavals, Myra Hess’ 1938 HMV version does not match the galvanic force of Rachmaninov, the whimsy of Cortot, or Arrau’s
For me, the real “Best of Satie” would include at least excerpts from the opera Socrate and the ballet Parade. But this is a nice
To know only the popular Vals Criollo among Antonio Lauro’s Venezuelan Waltzes for guitar is like knowing just one Chopin Mazurka, Scarlatti Sonata, Haydn Symphony,
As Scriabin’s Preludes progressively leave their Chopin models behind and dig deeper into sensuous abstraction, Evgeny Zarafiants’ probing, dark toned interpretations truly hit home. No
