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What an unexpected pleasure! Having always found Licia Albanese sincere but pallid, I was pleasantly surprised by both her fresh, involved singing and her fiery
Edward Thomas’ Desire Under the Elms, based on the Eugene O’Neill play, relates the story of Eben, a young farmer who becomes disgruntled when his
2005 International Busoni Competition winner Giuseppe Andaloro makes his first contribution to Naxos’ slowly but steadily progressing complete Liszt piano music cycle, starting with all
Gerald Finzi was a supremely gifted songwriter in the sense that his melodies always seem to flow naturally from and with the text, the harmonic
Benjamin Britten’s cantata Rejoice in the Lamb has been very well served on recordings, both in performances with men and boys (St. Thomas Church, New
It’s a stretch to call everything on this disc a “miniature”. Froissart is, after all, quite substantial, and the Three Bavarian Dances are scored for
Even 40 or so years after it was written, Charles Ives’ Psalm 90 still seemed radically, ingeniously cool to a certain familiar bunch of ’60s-era
Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant and premiered at the Glimmerglass Opera (where this was recorded) in 2006, Stephen Hartke’s The Greater Good
Nearly 80 minutes of Elgar in march tempo may be a bit much at a single sitting, but this disc fills a useful niche. The
Eldar Nebolsin first came to my attention in 1994, when the pianist (19 at the time) recorded an exciting and energetic Chopin B minor sonata
