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My French colleague Christophe Huss called a few days ago and said “You’ve got to try the new Bruch Concerto disc on Naxos. It’s really
Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-74) was a noted composer of Italian opera (principally) in Vienna, who enjoyed strong connections to the Royal court. He also was
Because many harp CDs feature transcriptions, soothing background arpeggios, and new age pluckery, we tend to forget that there’s a big, wide, wonderful world of
Judy Loman spent most of her career as principal harpist for the Toronto Symphony (retiring in 2002), while making frequent appearances as soloist and chamber
Primarily known as one of his generation’s top opera composers, Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) may or may not have penned the 87 brief keyboard movements that
Peter Breiner’s arrangements of music from these two operas succeed on a number of levels. First, the two works offer a great deal of symphonic
This recording is the third of Lully’s Armide; the other two, from 1983 (Erato) and 1992 (Harmonia Mundi), were led by Philippe Herreweghe. The first,
This program of works by five Catalan composers, recorded at a series of New York concerts in March 2007 and performed by the excellent Voices
Leonard Bernstein’s own version bettered? Yes, indeed! This is, handily, the best sung, best played, most intelligently interpreted recording of Mass currently available. Of course,
Billed as the start of a new complete Shostakovich symphony cycle, this initial entry holds a great deal of promise. The Eleventh Symphony has more
