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Here, in the composer’s most transparent, un-sentimental score, Sinopoli gets
It’s good to have Elijah Moshinsky’s 1993 production of Richard Strauss’ ironically lovely Ariadne on DVD. Michael Yeargan sets the Prologue backstage with scaffolding, ladders,
Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) lived long enough to experience nearly every major development in German music from Brahms to Schoenberg and beyond. His music,
Regardless of almost anything else, the success or failure of any performance of La Gioconda depends on the soprano singing the title role. The voice
This recording is mostly a positive experience: Both singers are in excellent voice, and it’s actually not all that jarring to listen to two such
This is one of the best-played, least-gripping Tristans I’ve ever encountered. It isn’t often that by the fourth note of any grand piece of music
Deborah Voigt has a big, warm, handsome, secure soprano that she uses wisely and always to the benefit of the music. This CD presents her