On paper, this looks like a dream version of The Barber of Seville -- Beverly Sills, Nicolai Gedda, Sherrill Milnes, Renato Capecchi, and Ruggero Raimondi, conducted by James Levine. It's never less than fully professional, but only occasionally catches fire and lifts off with the lightness that characterizes truly transcendent performances of ...
While most serious listeners already have their favorite set of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, newcomers searching for respectable recordings at a reasonable price would do well to start with these performances by Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Released on two separate discs in the EMI Classics budget line, these ...
This two-disc set entitled An Anthology of English Song is just what it says it is: a very generous collection of 53 selections drawn from 13 separate discs of songs by English composers from Stanford to Britten. Some were first issued in the '90s on the late Collins label. Some were first issued in the 2000s on the vibrant Naxos label. But all ...
Soprano Nicole Cabell, who won the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, is a singer to watch. Her debut solo CD on Decca presents her in a wide variety of arias, from "Summertime" to Juliette's "Ah, Je veux vivre." Her voice is bright, and while she is capable of the required pyrotechnics, she has just a little edge that becomes more ...
On paper, this looks like a dream version of The Barber of Seville -- Beverly Sills, Nicolai Gedda, Sherrill Milnes, Renato Capecchi, and Ruggero Raimondi, conducted by James Levine. It's never less than fully professional, but only occasionally catches fire and lifts off with the lightness that characterizes truly transcendent performances of ...
This may not need to be the only Janácek set on the shelf, but it is surely a good place to start a Janácek collection. Outside of the operas, all Janácek's core works are here as well as a few oddballs. But for the core works, the performances in this set are as good or better than any other non-Czech performance. Paul Crossley's performances of ...
There are basically two kinds of performances of Bach's keyboard concertos -- those played on the harpsichord and those played on the piano. There are likewise basically two kinds of performances of Bach's keyboard concertos played on the piano -- those played as if the piano were a percussion instrument and those played as if the piano were a ...
As one of the great comic masterpieces of opera, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro has received many fine recordings over the years. This 1971 recording is complete, including the often omitted arias in Act 4, has few embellishments and has the use of a full modern orchestra. This is not the recording for the purist who desires the latest in ...
This disc, originally recorded in 1997, has been issued in various forms; the current Arie Antiche (Antique Arias) title is better than the British release that bestowed upon the program the wimpy title of Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings Classical Arias. Most of the arias are Baroque, not Classical, and a few come from early in the Baroque era -- ...
This album by operatic soprano Carole Farley is somewhat mistitled; few of the songs are in the first rank of pop standards, and indeed the album's most noteworthy feature is that it includes four world premieres of songs by Kurt Weill, uncovered by Farley herself. To take the obvious first question first, this collection is worth purchasing for ...
One can hardly imagine an Adrian Boult Missa Solemnis or a John Barbirolli Missa Solemnis. Indeed, the whole notion of an English Missa Solemnis seems suspect, as if an English conductor would have to turn the Missa Solemnis into either Messiah meets Elijah or, worse yet, Gerontius meets A Mass of Life. Thankfully, Colin Davis' 1977 recording of ...
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