
Here is a re-issue containing Helmuth Rilling’s recordings of Mendelssohn’s […]
When was the last time you looked for/listened to/purchased a recording of solo-bass cantatas? Whether your answer is “last week” or “never”, when the soloist
This is a fine follow-up to the same group’s Die Walküre released on Naxos last year (see reviews). Maestro Jaap van Zweden is again in
In sports there are awards for MVP or best player in this or that position, or there are world rankings to confirm greater or lesser
A minor caveat first. Listeners will have to adjust to the voice/orchestra balance: the former is highlighted to an irritating degree in Act 1. This
Taken from two concert performances in January, 2015, this is the first installment of an entire Ring Cycle from the Hong Kong Philharmonic under Jaap
In Matthias Goerne’s Volume 7 of his ongoing Schubert Edition he offers a program of 19 songs, its title derived from perhaps the most famous
Taken from live concert performances (and perhaps rehearsals) in London in January, 2010, this sonically impressive, note-complete Elektra is an odd duck. Conductor Valery Gergiev
From the opening sentence of the booklet notes we know
Harmonia Mundi now owns the two best Die schöne Müllerin recordings currently available–a tenor version by Werner Güra and Jan Schultsz from 1999 (see reviews