"Believing that the performer's role was properly creative," writes Gould biographer Kevin Bazzana, "he offered original, deeply personal, sometimes shocking interpretations (extreme tempos, odd ... (Read More)
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"In my idea at least, the ideal preparation for the contrapuntal pursuits to be found in Bach's music is offered by the music of the English Tudor composers, particularly William Byrd." So wrote ... (Read More)
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David Hickman, cornet. Mark H. Lawrence, trombone. American Serenade Band. Henry Charles Smith, conductor.
Label: Summit. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 121. Daedalus Item Code: 27682
Time was, every self-respecting township had a band gazebo in the municipal park so that marches, airs, and popular dance tunes could waft out over a summer evening. Those days come to life again ... (Read More)
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson heads a stellar cast in this acclaimed complete recording of Ariodante, called by Fanfare "a milestone of the Handel renaissance of the last decade." Lieberson ... (Read More)
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Marion Verbruggen, recorder. Ton Koopman, harpsichord & organ. Jaap ter Linden, cello.
Label: Harmonia Mundi. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 907151. Daedalus Item Code: 37031
Stylishly played and beautifully ornamented, these performances will gladden the heart of Early Music mavens as well as those who want to dip their toes into the melodious inventiveness of ... (Read More)
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The New Yorker calls Hélène Grimaud "a reinventor of phrasings, a taker of chances" and her albums "highly personal explorations that can stand out among dozens of rival performances." This ... (Read More)
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Jennifer Koh, violin. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. Robert Spano, conductor.
Label: Telarc. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 32630. Daedalus Item Code: 37012
"Higdon's signature Americana feelings often reflected in her harmonies and melodies, an easygoing instrumental palette of great color, and a sense of the poetic that also transfers itself into ... (Read More)
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Johann Vesque von Püttlingen (pseudonym Johann Hoven) was an Austrian composer who befriended Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Schubert, holding the latter as his ideal. Beginning in 1828, he began publishing ... (Read More)
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As a singer of lieder, Markus Schäfer has performed Schubert, Schumann, and Wolf at the Wolf-Gesellschaft in Stuttgart and also at Lincoln Center, New York. This is the third volume in his recordings ... (Read More)
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Sena Jurinac, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Rolando Panerai & others. Philharmonia Orchestra. Herbert von Karajan, conductor, & others.
Label: Urania. Format: 2 CDs.
Label Number: 22266. Daedalus Item Code: 27165
Sung in Italian, this mid-1950s live recording of Humperdinck's enrapturing children's opera features Sena Jurinac as Hansel and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as Gretel (a part she recapitulated in the ... (Read More)
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Inge Borkh, Maria Stader, David Molnar & Dino Dondi. Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala. Christoph Lertz, conductor, & others.
Label: Gala Music. Format: 2 CDs.
Label Number: 100805. Daedalus Item Code: 27557
"Inge Borkh was my first Elektra, and I'll never forget the way she dug for that ax," wrote Albert Innaurato in Opera News of this German soprano, who began as an actress and switched to ... (Read More)
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This is the first complete collection of the legendary chamber music concerts begun in 1961 by violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. This budget-priced, 21-CD boxed set comes ... (Read More)
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