
It’s encouraging to see a relatively new orchestral work become a “hit”, garnering performances worldwide and recordings nearly as numerous as those of Mahler symphonies.
There was a time, youngsters take note, when a performance of this symphony was a Major Event and not just another subscription night at the
This is a mostly wonderful performance of Verdi’s great comic opera, with singing and playing of a very high order. Paul Daniel coaxes charming, light
Maybe this is just a subjective impression, but it seems that Vaughan Williams’ choral works are going out of fashion. A couple of decades ago
The more time passes, the more Leonard Bernstein’s “Kaddish” symphony sounds like an important work. It certainly does in Gerard Schwarz’s hands, as he leads
Giovanni Mayr is known today primarily as the teacher of Donizetti, but in the very late 1700s and first two decades of the 1800s, this
Yvonne Kenny is a wonderful singer, with a pliable, shimmering tone, a technique that allows her to sing at many dynamic levels from ppp to
Handel’s 1738 Serse (Xerxes) is a wonderful work, an opera seria that the composer imbued with a new, genuinely comic slant, filled with the gamut
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