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Many of my friends and respected colleagues, including the wise and discerning Thomas May (who wrote the enlightening notes that accompany this recording), find this
Determined and fearless, Teodor Currentzis, who holds court in the Siberian city of Perm (where the Russian/Perm government apparently has given him both funds and
If you’ve been around for the past 40 or so
In the past few months at least eight recordings of
This very fine and thoughtfully programmed Christmas recording resulted from a concert presented at London’s Royal Festival Hall in December 2009. The highlight here is
Richard Hickox already has recorded Carmina Burana with the LSO forces (last available on Regis). That was a version of no special distinction, and neither
Very few operas work as well in translation as Mozart’s. Not only are there lots of words, but they mean somethihg–and nuances are crucial. This
This live-in-concert recording uses the 1852 version of Benvenuto Cellini, the version used when Franz Liszt convinced the Weimar opera of the work’s worthiness 14
This production updates Handel’s Giulio Cesare to approximately the first fifth of the 20th century, when the Brits were still busy colonizing. Brigitte Reiffenstuel’s costumes
First the bad news: Christopher Maltman sings a pretty lousy Songs of a Wayfarer. He sounds more concerned with diction than with meaning. Final consonants
