
This is a nice, well-behaved Mahler 8th, which benefits from conductor Markus Stenz’s energized pacing, along with alert orchestral playing and lively and refreshing choral
Here’s an excellent concept program (interesting music composed roughly contemporaneously)
Projects such as this can go so horribly wrong. Opera singers trying to perform “lighter” fare usually do no favors either to themselves or to
This first release on the Boston Symphony’s own label, featuring the orchestra’s new music director Andris Nelsons, sounds very promising, especially given the fact that
The late Charles Rosen’s renown as a writer, scholar, musical
There have been several fine audio-only performances of this, Bellini’s Romeo and Juliet story, with casts that include Elina Garanca and Anna Netrebko, Vesselina Kasarova
Before recordings and radio were invented, the piano represented one’s home entertainment center. If you wanted to hear a Beethoven string quartet, you had to
Having been unimpressed with previous releases by Slatkin and the Lyon orchestra in music by Ravel and Berlioz, I am happy to report that the
Having previously distinguished herself on disc as a chamber music collaborator, the young French pianist Amandine Savary makes her CD solo debut with Bach’s Toccatas.
This enterprising, well-put-together recital features a worthwhile collection of contemporary clarinet music played to a fare-thee-well by Colorado State professor Wesley Ferreira, pianist Gail Novak,