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The Gondoliers was the closest the Gilbert and Sullivan team came to writing a full-fledged opera, and it’s wry book and catchy tunes have kept
The early 1950s D’Oyly Carte Decca recordings of the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas tend to be devalued these days, connoisseurs preferring the vintage versions from
This is an absolutely terrible performance of Daphnis et Chloé. Naturally the Lyon orchestra has the notes down pat, but in every other respect Jun
Although the whole performance is top-notch, the main reason for owning this Cenerentola is the warm, delightfully human, and stunningly sung Cinderella of Joyce DiDonato.
Slowly but surely Giuseppe Martucci’s orchestral music is making headway on CD. In 2007 Brilliant Classics reissued ASV’s complete cycle, while my colleague Victor Carr
The principal attraction of this second installment in Naxos’ complete Debussy cycle lies in Marius Constant’s 25 well-put-together minutes of music from the opera Pelléas
This second installment in Peter Breiner’s series of suites from Janácek operas is more successful than the first. It’s particularly exciting to hear the music
The principal attraction of this release lies in Andy Stein’s arrangement of “Death and the Maiden” for full orchestra (as opposed to, say, Mahler’s transcription
This disc recalls the heady days of Munch and Bernstein in this music. Stéphane Denève, music director of the RSNO since 2005, plays Roussel’s music
Has anyone ever noticed that William Walton lifted the climaxes of the first movement of his Partita for Orchestra bodily from the Prélude of Roussel’s
