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Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto is a gorgeous piece of music, splendidly written for the soloist and orchestrated with infallible mastery. Why then isn’t it better
Yoel Levi’s soft-edged rendition of Mahler’s kaleidoscopic Seventh Symphony offers much that is likeable. It falls far easier on the ear than most recordings of
As recent recordings on Teldec and Chandos have shown, Antonio Rosetti was a marvelous composer with a fresh, original classical style. Although he used the
On November 13th, 1936, Fritz Reiner led the San Francisco Opera in Wagner’s Die Walküre, with a dream cast. NBC aired only the second act,
It should be enough to say that Joan Tower is one of the world’s most successful, busiest, and respected composers–but the producers of this disc,
The first thing you notice about this live 1942 performance is the unusually vivid sound, which likely derives from an early, experimental tape source. While
In his relentless quest to explore uncharted territories of cellodom, Yo-Yo Ma has delivered a recital for unaccompanied cello that–daringly–hasn’t any Bach. Instead, there are
These performances from David Zinman’s final quintet of seasons with the Baltimore Symphony are clearly intended to show off their now-departed Music Director in mainstream
Let’s get the downside over with first. The Golden Horns is a melodrama: in other words, speech over music. The poem, in Danish, is one
You just have to love music like this–tuneful and exceptionally well crafted, these little concertos and cantata were, after all, intended for the pure enjoyment
