Ian Bostridge's collection of Handel arias and recitatives plunges boldly into the familiar repertoire -- pieces done so frequently that they're likely to be greeted with a yawn. It's a measure of Bostridge's confidence that he devotes much of the CD to these warhorses, and of his skill, that they come across as fresh and newly imagined. Bostridge ...
There have been few violinists who have recorded any of Schubert's violin music and far fewer violinists who recorded all of Schubert's violin music. Thankfully, Gidon Kremer is one of the few who have recorded it all. Although Kremer is best known for his virtuoso performances of an eclectic repertoire from Shostakovich to Piazolla, he is both a ...
This two-CD set is a sampler drawn from the set of complete Domenico Scarlatti keyboard sonatas recorded by Richard Lester between 2000 and 2005 and issued in seven volumes. If a full series is executed with care, the listener wanting a sample is often better off choosing a single volume from the series rather than the official sampler, but this ...
This 12-disc set does indeed contain all of Brahms' acknowledged chamber works (the original version of the first Piano Trio and the possibly spurious-possibly authentic Fourth Piano Quartet are left out). And although the standard caveats for box sets holds here -- the quality of the performers is mixed and better performances of all the works ...
Harpsichordist Richard Lester, apparently with energies left over from his fine traversal of Scarlatti's entire keyboard sonata oeuvre, turns here to two of Scarlatti's students with enjoyable results. Carlos Seixas (1704-1742) was even more prolific than his teacher; he wrote about 700 sonatas, but most were lost in the disastrous Lisbon ...
Imelda de'Lambertazzi (1830) was written just before Donizetti's first great international success, Anna Bolena, and it remains one of his many operas that has never made it into the repertoire. In his illuminating program notes, Jeremy Commons argues that Imelda was probably Donizetti's most forward-looking, even avant-garde opera; the composer ...
This six-CD set, to which the word marathon could apply, is but part of an enormous series of seven boxes covering Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas in their entirety. Several of these mammoth cycles are underway or completed, and even if editing is really the soul of concertizing, the versions are distinct enough to maintain interest. Lester's ...
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