
Listeners familiar with Allan Pettersson’s monomanical and bleakly obsessive symphonies will be surprised at the plain-spoken quality of his art songs, all of which date
Since Wieland Wagner’s “revolution” in staging, it is nearly impossible to watch a performance of Parsifal, unless it is done literally, following Wagner’s stage directions,
Colin Davis recorded a Kullervo Symphony with the LSO as part of his often lousy complete symphony cycle for RCA. His ongoing series of remakes
This very well played and sung selection of music from Peer Gynt contains all of the major numbers save the lengthy melodramas with dialogue and
Any opera company that takes on Don Carlos, which stands among Verdi’s greatest, grandest, and most ambitious operas, deserves some applause, and this Royal Swedish
Taken from live performances in London in December, 2000 (but with nary a sound from the audience), you might think that since Colin Davis previously
A home run! Chailly takes Part One “Allegro” but surely not “impetuoso”, as Mahler instructs. Problem is, only five bars into the symphony Mahler also
Whew! This may not be the most perfectly sung Don Giovanni available, but hands down it’s the most exciting–more so than the Gardiner, which is
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