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[A re-post from our archives in memory of conductor Andrew Davis, February 2, 1944-April 20, 2024.] Neither an opera nor an oratorio, this unique work–certainly
This new holiday season has brought with it some smartly programmed Christmas choral recordings, including this one that combines The City of London Choir, soloists,
John Rutter has an unmistakable style whose identifying characteristics include some favorite rhythmic and melodic elements, devices that tell us immediately that this is the
Although a return visit to my previous favorite Solomon–John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir on Philips, from 1984–confirms its continued place as the reference
Gerald Finzi was a supremely gifted songwriter in the sense that his melodies always seem to flow naturally from and with the text, the harmonic
Don’t confuse this recital with a mere collection of nursery-rhyme ditties; it’s a wonderful and very well-performed and recorded compilation of some of the more
Here’s an enormously useful and enjoyable disc containing some well-known favorites (Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Toward the Unknown Region), alongside three rarities. The
This disc completes Marin Alsop’s Samuel Barber orchestral music traversal for Naxos. Overall, it is a distinguished collection, and although this wrap-up falters a bit,
Something just isn’t right with Hickox and Chandos. The last few releases in this cycle have been mediocre to dreadful, and it’s difficult to understand
This is a very good performance of Britten’s British-as-could-be chamber-sized comic opera. It’s a work that’s chock-full of flavorful characters, and every recorded performance has
