
The book sold 4 million copies and spent a year on the best-seller list and the movie won an Oscar. How can the opera fail?
This is such a great recording of The Rite of
This is a lovely performance–sensitive, very well played, shapely and effortless. Conductor Marc Albrecht makes his points without exaggeration, revealing personal touches in his care
This is a great Ravel disc, and one of the
Marek Janowski’s stirring performance of Richard Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony
Richard Strauss likely will remain best known for his lush
Someone, somewhere, probably gets paid to come up with the dumb titles of collections such as this, and the tendency to use them is definitely
Janowski’s Bruckner features one indisputably great performance: the Eighth Symphony.
This recording was poorly received upon its initial release. Re-listening,
Conductor Marc Albrecht launches Das Lied von der Erde with