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Bidú Sayao was a world-famous Manon, and this performance, her debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in February of l937, makes clear why. She temperamentally
Nikolai Medtner’s lapidarian style is hard to pigeonhole. It masks its Slavic origins in a cosmopolitan cloak that blends the effusive, hedonistic aspects of French
Rachel Podger’s small-scale, dynamically constricted, enervated, and emotionally withdrawn playing gives little clue to the harmonic tension, lofty architecture, and cumulative power of these works,
Zoltán Kodály’s Missa Brevis, for chorus and organ, is an ambitious, starkly beautiful, and functionally liturgical work that serves equally well as a concert piece.
None of the masterful late sets of Bagatelles appear in this collection of odds and ends. These are mostly early works and “chips” from the
Although the composer himself probably would have denied it strenuously, this music really is great fun. The poetry in “Pierrot Lunaire” is simply the last
Sinopoli is himself a composer whose style often recalls that of Alban Berg, so it’s no surprise that he turns in a very personal, but
Unlike Lipatti’s 1950 recordings, made in the last year of his brief life on a less than ideal instrument, his 1947 sessions capture the full
BMG’s remastering for Vladimir Horowitz’s November 1981 Metropolitan Opera recital enhances the ambience and definition of the original Soundstream digital tape, bringing the artist’s difficult-to-record
The unpredictable Sir Thomas Beecham triumphs with one of the most cohesively satisfying versions of this ambitious opus on record, recorded live in 1959. Abetted
