
CPO already has recorded the complete Pfitzner Lieder for voice and piano, surely not one of the label’s best-selling projects. This disc suggests that the
Before Otto Nicolai wrote the major work for which he is known–The Merry Wives of Windsor–he wrote Italian operas, of which Il Templario, first shown
When you hear this remarkable work you don’t have to know that Dresden church composer Gottfried August Homilius (1714-1785) was a pupil of J.S. Bach
There’s a lot of prettiness in this release of the first successful large-scale work by Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)–perhaps too much prettiness. The disc