
Beginning with an ebullient and colorfully scored Sinfonia (giving a prominent role to the organ), Bach’s cantata BWV 169 sets the tone for this superb
A voice teacher and professional lieder singer I know and respect entered the room during Bernarda Fink’s performance of Mondnacht on this new recording of
René Jacobs’ ongoing recorded survey of Mozart’s operas has reached the composer’s first masterpiece, Idomeneo, premiered in Munich in 1781. And again, Jacobs has proved
Any fan of lieder knows that there are at least a zillion Schubert recitals on disc, performed by all manner of singers, from “golden era”
John Eliot Gardiner has returned to the form reminiscent of his earliest days with the Monteverdi Choir, when performances were bright and fresh and taut
It’s somehow fitting that this new coupling of Berlioz and Ravel song cycles should be released at the same time that we learn of the
As she proved on her 2002 Schumann recital, also for Harmonia Mundi (type Q5236 in Search Reviews), mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink is a first-rate Romantic lieder
Would it be too bold to say that this version of Orfeo & Euridice is the most moving, beautiful, and simply right in a very
Here’s a recital that explores a long-neglected corner of art music: the nationalist movement in Argentina that flowered from about 1900 on. It absorbed into
René Jacobs turned in a sensational recording of Haydn’s The Seasons for Harmonia Mundi last year, and now he’s back with what I hope will