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This recent import reissue of George Malcolm’s 1965 L’Oiseau-Lyre (now Decca) Rameau keyboard cycle couldn’t be more timely, especially for neophytes who simply want to
Most musicals today are subjected to endless rewrites, tryouts, and more rewrites. When Leonard Bernstein and his lyricist cohorts Betty Comden and Adolph Green were
The music for this ever popular show was almost written by Jerome Kern, but just days before he was to start work on the project,
Kurt Weill regarded this work highly, predicting it would be remembered as his masterpiece. It is a difficult work to peg; is it opera with
Anthony Newman first recorded Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book I on the harpsichord for CBS in the early 1970s. Nearly three decades later Newman brought the
In Naxos’ new transfer this 1950 recording sounds as if it were recorded 10 years later; of course it’s mono, but it’s clean and clear
This attractive-enough collection of very tonal songs by John Duke–mostly settings of Dickinson, Wylie, and Cummings–offers nice tunes, well-wrought piano accompaniments, and easy-to-follow harmonies. However,
These performances originally were recorded by Decca in the 1980s in the justly famed acoustics of London’s Rosslyn Hill Chapel, and although we can fully
As with the La Brea tar pits or Shelob’s lair, countless innocent amateur choirs have wandered willingly into the dangerous confines of Bruckner’s motets and
Gerard Schurmann openly acknowledges basing his 1996 Concerto for Orchestra on Bartók’s–deliberately emulating the latter’s orchestration and following his five-movement layout with two large movements
