This stupendously rich and varied set of vocal masterpieces includes Mahler's Eighth Symphony conducted by Kent Nagano; Bach's cantatas Trauerode and Jesu, der du meine Seele, ... (Read More)
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Fernando Corena, bass. Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Gianandrea Gavazzeni & James Walker, conductors.
Label: Decca. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 4757170. Daedalus Item Code: 18091
A master of Italian buffo roles and an outstanding singing actor, Fernando Corena was the son of a Turkish father and an Italian mother who was born in Switzerland. In this 1957 recital he also shows ... (Read More)
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We commend this set to you if you have ever wondered why 19th-century audiences were so enraptured by Liszt. Highlights include "Un Sospiro," the "Mephisto Polka," Liszt's transcription of Bach's ... (Read More)
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"I was only six when I first heard Rachmaninoff perform," recalls Wild, "and I attended his concerts regularly for the next 22 years until his death in 1943." Rachmaninoff himself left only two ... (Read More)
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It has long been known that British composer Edward Elgar's 1919 cello concerto reflected the pain and devastation of World War I, as well as the freedom of being back in the English countryside. It ... (Read More)
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John O'Conor, piano. Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor.
Label: Telarc. Format: 2 cutout CDs.
Label Number: 80733. Daedalus Item Code: 27032
Sir Charles Mackerras and John O'Conor are not only exciting performers, they are also "scholar-musicians." They both believe that Mozart's written concerto parts give only a partial picture of what ... (Read More)
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Renata Scotto, soprano. Orchestre National de l'Opera de Monte-Carlo. Louis Fremaux, conductor.
Label: Deutsche Grammophon. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 4776615. Daedalus Item Code: 18021
Bel canto arias from Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix ("Ah! tardai troppo ... O luce di quest'anima") and Bellini's I Puritani ("Son vergin vezzosa"), as well as a touching scene from ... (Read More)
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"It would be wrong to pretend that everything is on the same exalted level as Gould's almost miraculously articulate playing of Bach," writes Andrew Clements in The Guardian, "it was always ... (Read More)
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"Gould's Bach is, of course, justly famous. His English Suites are fine examples of the penetrating vision and digital dexterity he brought to Bach's music."—Washington Post
"We bought his recordings whenever a new LP came out. I remember his Brahms, his Strauss, and of course his Bach. We would listen to his Bach discs—my parents were musicians too—and my dad would say: ... (Read More)
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"Gould's 1964 recording of the Two- and Three-Part Inventions, BWV 772-801, was made less than a month before he made his abrupt departure from public performance, and that fact may affect how ... (Read More)
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"A benchmark of sorts … dynamically thrilling…. Hans von Bülow (1830-94), the great German pianist and conductor who led the premiere of Tristan und Isolde and was one of the first pianists to ... (Read More)
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