Why bother?
I wouldn’t have even bothered with this CD – Decca is far from the esteemed label it once was 20 years ago. But since the Chicago Symphony has just announced this conductor will replace Riccardo […]
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Oper Frankfurt – Zemlinsky’s Der Traumgörge – Takeshi Moriuchi, Zuzana Marková & Magdalena Hinterdobler; directed by Tilmann Köhler; conducted by Markus Poschner
George, the title character of Zemlinsky’s third opera (composed between 1903 and 1907, but not premiered until long after his death in 1980) is usually taken, in his eponymous dreaming and obsession with fairy tales, […]
Oper Frankfurt – Cimarosa’s L’Italiana in Londra – Monika Buczkowsk, Mikołaj Trąbka & Bianca Tognocchi; directed by R. B. Schlather; conducted by Julia Jones
The Italian Girl in London (1778) is one of the earlier operas by the prolific older contemporary of Mozart, Cimarosa. Although termed an intermezzo, as a comedy essentially it follows the same conventions of an opera buffa, and […]
Make Classical Archives Your Place to Explore the Recordings of Maurizio Pollini
Maurizio Pollini The magnificent Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini passed away on March 24 at age 82. Pollini was an aristocratic, refined pianist who excelled in playing Chopin, Brahms and of course, Beethoven. Yet he also […]
Welsh National Opera – Mozart’s Così fan tutte – with Sophie Bevan, Kayleigh Decker, Egor Zhuravskii & James Atkinson; directed by Max Hoehn; conducted by Frederick Brown
Many remember the name, in English, of Mozart and Da Ponte’s third operatic collaboration as ‘Women are like that’, with more than a whiff of apparent misogyny in it (the ending of the Italian tutte definitely denotes […]
Rewarding collection of French symphonic music
There is a lot of wonderful music on this well-filled 2-CD set. (Each disc lasts more than 73 minutes.) It is all played with refinement and finesse by the Orchestre National de Lyon, led by […]
Káťa Kabanová – Rattle with the LSO
This, the second part of Simon Rattle’s traversal of Janacek’s operas, follows on from his highly successful The Cunning Little Vixen. Mackerras’ classic Decca account was used for comparison. In terms of the conducting, Rattle […]
A rather nice program (including one real gem) in the ongoing series from Neave Trio
A Room of Her Own is a new collection of music for Violin, Cello and Piano, played by Neave Trio, which continues their exploration of Trios by female composers. I greatly enjoyed their previous Chandos […]
Tubin’s Kratt highlights a terrific program from Paavo Jarvi
This is Paavo Jarvi’s 4th album with the Estonian Festival Orchestra for Alpha Classics, and the highlight is certainly Tubin’s ballet suite, Kratt (Goblin) – which receives headliner status on the front cover. The ballet is based on […]
A rather curious program from Joshua Weilerstein
The title alone is a bit odd. Why this combination for a CD program? But never mind that, I gave it a spin anyway – mainly because I wanted to hear if this promising young […]
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