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This is an old-fashioned, flesh-and-blood, no-subtleties, stand-and-deliver Tosca, with singers steeped in the verismo tradition and a conductor who likes the “shabby little shocker” elements
Venetian-born Gian Francesca Malipiero (1882-1973) produced a huge, uneven output and swam against the tides of his times–both prescriptions for long-term obscurity. He did enjoy
We all know this: debut albums come and go; young wizard violinists who for the most part all sound alike come and go; and certainly
These are middling accounts of Prokofiev’s two concertos. Graf Mourja’s straightforward approach presents the music plainly, without any untoward intervention but without much distinction either.
The latest in Romophone’s invaluable series of the complete Gigli traces the tenor’s HMV song and aria recordings made between 1938 and 1940, when he
Thomas Dausgaard and his band turn in good but not quite great performances of these two symphonies, at least compared to those on Sixten Ehrling’s
Le Sacre du Printemps works best in its piano duet incarnation when the performers approach tempos, sonorities, and balances in the manner of a conductor
By the time Handel composed Arminio in 1736 (in a record 18 days!), his operatic career was coming to a close. He was writing frantically,
File this one under “event”. This is nothing less than an attempt to reconstruct and present–in as much splendor as can be mustered on a
When these 1952 recordings were made, Handel specialist and conductor Fritz Lehmann was determined to shed new light on what passed for contemporary baroque interpretation.
