
Taped live at the Metropolitan Opera House on December 29th, 1945, this Rigoletto has a lot going for it. Leonard Warren is towering in the
This edition of Bruckner’s First Symphony purports to be the “really original” Linz version, though the differences between it and what we know as the
One of the fascinating things about the history of European music is the way that the centers of musical thought, innovation, and influence shifted through
Edmond Dédé (1827-1901) was one of a select group of “free black” composers who left the United States shortly before the Civil War to study
Carter Pann is just 28 years old, but already he has won several prestigious awards and generally grabbed the attention of the music world with
Though Segovia and John Williams have programmed his works, the name of Venezuelan composer Antonio Lauro (1917-1986) is scarcely a household word. Surely this must
This second volume of Schumann piano trios contains a lovely novelty: Theodor Kirchner’s arrangement of the Six Pieces in Canonic Form, Op. 56 (originally composed
Volume Eight in Naxos’ complete Marcel Dupré organ works cycle offers a judicious sampling of Dupré’s wide-ranging style at its best. The organist/composer’s renowned Symphonie-Passion
This recording confirms Tintner’s stature as a Bruckner conductor in as convincing a manner as his recent, astounding recording of the Third Symphony, but for
In orchestral music, it seems that there’s nothing quite so exciting as a Baroque trumpet player reaching for pure high tones, the instrumental equivalent of