
Harnoncourt fans will be excited to know that their hero […]
DG reissues its late-1980s Levine/Met Ring cycle as a budget-priced, space-saving boxed set, providing serious competition for similarly packaged editions of Wagner’s Der Ring des
Recorded on December 7, 2007, this commemorates Daniel Barenboim’s conducting debut at La Scala, Milan, at the helm of the opera he probably knows best,
This oddity from Berlin in 1982 is more than worth a listen. Here we have a bunch of great singers, an always interesting conductor, and
This Ring, released in 1983, was the first to be digitally recorded. I recall that each CD contained only two or three tracks–certain technical aspects
Kalevi Aho’s Third Symphony foreshadows his later works that make ingenious use of various instruments in concertante form. While several of these quasi-concertos already have