Wild, passionate, and over in less than an hour, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is one of the greatest operas ever composed and it has received some of the greatest performances of any opera ever recorded. And while some of them have been sung with more refinement or more fervor, few can match this performance with Susan Graham as Dido and Ian ...
The suites from Peer Gynt, through no fault of his own, are Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's calling card. Certain pieces, such as "Morning Mood" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" are well known even among those who have never heard of Grieg. However, Grieg's incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt is only seldom recorded as a ...
There are folks out there who loathe Benjamin Zander's conducting. Some find him an amateur with limited technique. Some find him an eccentric with odd interpretations. Some find him purposefully willful with weird colors, strange balances, and a peculiar sense of tempo. That's fine. There's plenty of room in the world for differences in opinion. ...
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