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Franz Lachner (1803-90) is best known today as the Munich Kapellmeister whose career was cut short by the arrival of Wagner and the nuttiness of
The 1885 Erard piano used in this recording of Debussy’s Preludes Book II stands out for the distinct character of its sonorities in different registers
Iván Fischer seems to have caught a severe case of Micro-Managitus, not that we couldn’t see it coming. The symptoms are evident in the Midsummer
As hard as it is to believe that there are more vintage recordings of Tristan coming to light, it’s even harder to believe that anyone
I have finally figured out that like anchovies, you can’t convince people to like the countertenor voice if they don’t “get” it. Their infantile squeamishness
This disc opens with terrific, riveting interpretations of famous Vivaldi
This is “big band” Haydn played and conducted in the most stylish, unaffected, and enjoyable way. The program itself is delightful: Haydn’s hilarious, six-movement “Distracted”
There’s real talent in Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad’s viola playing. Certainly the Walton concerto holds no terrors for him. Aside from perhaps an excessively wide vibrato
This performance replaces the John Eliot Gardiner as my new No. 1 Acis. It’s easy to understand why this brief work was the composer’s most
