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Fidelio is an opera that’s rarely taken lightly; casting is as serious a matter as orchestral preparation and conductorial approach. The available recordings attest to
It’s not often that accompaniment takes center stage in a recital of Schubert lieder, especially with a duo of A-list soloists heading the bill. In
Bad recordings of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder are hard to come by because the composer made it so easy to produce good ones. Schoenberg meticulously wrote down
Thomas Quasthoff’s voice is one of remarkable agility, color, and emotional range, and on this CD, which primarily contains music from operas very few people
Helmut Rilling’s Bach still has not received the acclaim it surely deserves, particularly from the critical community in English-speaking countries. The reasons are not hard
Recorded in 1993, this Schubert recital captures Thomas Quasthoff at the brink of his sensational international successes. RCA slapped the title “Goethe-Lieder” on the disc,
Bach’s Magnificat radiates spiritual joy and compositional daring, qualities Helmuth Rilling broaches but never quite embraces in his new recording of this popular work. This
Successful lieder singing–that is, the kind that makes listeners want to keep listening–is one of the more difficult musical/artistic undertakings. No sets and costumes, no
Whatever curse that has made Claudio Abbado and Berlin one of the most interpretively comatose musical partnerships in the world certainly seems to be working
