
Here is another superb program put together by Christina Pluhar and performed by L’Arpeggiata. Joining them are countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, soprano Nuria Rial, and a
Paavo Järvi almost always has interesting ideas, and this performance is no exception. The Andante features lots of little accents and inflections with no loss
The catalog may contain more ebullient, elaborately ornamented versions of Bach’s Partitas and English Suites, yet Gustav Leonhardt’s knowing mastery offers its own rewards. His
I’d admired Inva Mula’s DVD performances as Gilda and Lisette (in Rondine) and was looking forward to hearing this, her first solo recital. It isn’t
Joyce DiDonato becomes more interesting and more of a complete artist with each performance and recording. Even though we are living in a time of
Three new releases this month (March) feature tenor Rolando Villazon–a CD of Zarzuela arias, one of works by Monteverdi, and this new DVD of a
For most of us, there has been only one Marie and one Tonio–Sutherland and Pavarotti. They took their show on the road in the ’70s
Although I’ve admired David Fray’s crisply articulated, neo-Glenn Gouldian solo Bach playing live and on disc, this release containing four of the composer’s keyboard concertos
How do you characterize a voice like this? The “official” description is “contralto”, but no way is Richard Tucker Award-winner Stephanie Blythe a contralto in
This is a beautiful selection of arias from Handel’s oratorios composed in the latish 1740s. Each one is a gem and David Daniels again proves