
Thirty-four year old Georgian mezzo Anita Rachvelishvili may just grow into the dramatic mezzo that has been wanting since Fedora Barbieri, Giulietta Simionato, and Fiorenza
The pianist Pietro Scarpini (1911-1997) is not generally known outside
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These very fine performances were originally issued on three separate
There is no truly great disc of the four Saint-Saëns symphonic poems. Perhaps the best of them is the old Pierre Dervaux on EMI, but
Yes, there are many fine versions of these works, and these performances stand among them. Hindemith doesn’t offer the interpreter many opportunities to give his
Marin Alsop’s Prokofiev recordings for Naxos have had their ups and downs. This complete Romeo and Juliet ballet is definitely an “up.” It’s not the
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This is one of those recordings that you just “discover” rather than actively search for. (Who knows that these things exist?) As a sometime violist,