
Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte can be treated as pure jollity, but then the deadly serious Masonic rituals (whether one knows they’re Masonic or not) will be
John Eliot Gardiner’s fresh take on Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 is only partially about performing forces. The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique’s period-based proportions yield impressive
As we come to the end of Hyperion’s ambitious and critically acclaimed Vivaldi sacred music project–one more volume to go–Robert King introduces us not only
It gives me no pleasure to award a low rating to Nathalie Stutzmann’s latest Schubert recital since I’ve often admired her singing in the past.
Nathalie Stutzmann’s traversal of this most emotionally devastating of song cycles is excessively mannered. I’ve admired several of her previous recordings, including recitals of French
Seiji Ozawa’s credentials as a Mahlerian have not received the recognition that they deserve (the same holds true of his Bruckner). His complete symphony cycle
There was a time when new recordings of Mahler symphonies were major events, eagerly anticipated by the Mahler faithful, propagated by specialist conductors and orchestras