
Despite, or more possibly because of Claus Guth’s cold, distancing direction on Michael Levine’s even chillier and cruel sets, this performance of Leoš Janácek’s Jenufa,
I happened back on this release fresh from hearing Karita
This is the second of two Bruckner Te Deum’s that
During his tenure in Berlin, Abbado replaced more than 80
This budget reissue contains the audio tracks from the live
Karita Mattila is such an intelligent singer that it’s a pity not to be able to recommend this disc more enthusiastically. She’s at her very
Simon Boccanegra is Verdi’s saddest opera. The predominant colors are dark–there are more passages featuring only the low strings than anywhere else in his canon–and
Bad recordings of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder are hard to come by because the composer made it so easy to produce good ones. Schoenberg meticulously wrote down
Accompanied by the superb Staatskapelle Dresden, Finnish soprano Karita Mattila here presents eight German Romantic arias, two of which–both concert arias–are in Italian. The CD
This is an album of some very beautiful, warm, sensitive, and occasionally very powerful singing. Karita Mattila has had a successful worldwide career and has