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CD REVIEW: Franz Schubert — DER WANDERER – LIEDER (Roderick Williams,...
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 – 1828): Der Wanderer– Lieder—Roderick Williams, baritone; Iain Burnside, piano [Recorded in St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, UK, 21 – 24 October 2015; Delphian...
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CD REVIEW: Dmitri Shostakovich — PIANO TRIOS NOS. 1 & 2, VIOLA SONATA (V....
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906 – 1975): Trio No. 1 in C minor for piano, violin, and cello, Op. 8; Trio No. 2 in E minor for piano, violin, and cello, Op. 67; Sonata in C major for viola and piano, Op....
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CD REVIEW: Ludwig van Beethoven — MISSA SOLEMNIS (L. Aikin, B. Fink, J. Chum,...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770 – 1827): Missa solemnis in D major, Opus 123—Laura Aikin, soprano; Bernarda Fink, alto; Johannes Chum, tenor; Ruben Drole, bass; Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Concentus Musicus...
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CD REVIEW: Mieczysław Weinberg & Dmitri Shostakovich — SOLO SONATAS FOR...
MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG (1919 – 1996): Solo Sonatas for Violin Nos. 1 – 3 and DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906 - 1975): Three Fantastic Dances [transcribed for violin and piano by Harry Glickman]—Linus Roth,...
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CD REVIEW: Giuseppe Verdi — AIDA (K. Lewis, A. Bocelli, V. Simeoni, A....
GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813 – 1901): Aida—Kristin Lewis (Aida), Andrea Bocelli (Radamès), Veronica Simeoni (Amneris), Ambrogio Maestri (Amonasro), Carlo Colombara (Ramfis), Giorgio Giuseppini (Il re...
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CD REVIEW: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (T. Hampson, S....
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 – 1791): Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492—Thomas Hampson (Conte d’Almaviva), Sonya Yoncheva (Contessa d’Almaviva), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Christiane Karg (Susanna), Angela...
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ARTS IN ACTION: Berkshire Opera Festival brings Grand Opera to the Berkshire...
It was said by the first Chancellor of unified Germany Otto von Bismarck—and repeated but not, as has sometimes been suggested, originated by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber in Evita—that ‘politics is...
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CD REVIEW: Padre Antonio Soler — SIX CONCERTI FOR TWO KEYBOARDS (Philippe...
PADRE ANTONIO SOLER (1729 – 1783): Six Concerti for Two Keyboards—Philippe LeRoy and Jory Vinikour, harpsichords [Recorded at the Scoring Stage, Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, California, USA, 2 – 5 April...
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IN MEMORIAM: Incandescent Italian soprano DANIELA DESSÌ, 1957 – 2016
DANIELA DESSÌ14 May 1957 – 20 August 2016As I have written in past, one of the most difficult tasks that an opera-loving writer faces is that of struggling with inadequate words to say farewell to...
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH | August 2016: Vincenzo Bellini & Gaetano Donizetti —...
VINCENZO BELLINI (1801 – 1835) and GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797 – 1848): Allegro io son– Bel canto Arias—Lawrence Brownlee, tenor; Viktorija Miškūnaitė, soprano (Puritani selections); Liudas Mikalauskas,...
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CD REVIEW: Charles Gounod — CINQ-MARS (M. Vidal, V. Gens, T. Christoyannis,...
CHARLES-FRANÇOIS GOUNOD (1813 – 1893): Cinq-Mars—Mathias Vidal (Le Marquis de Cinq-Mars), Véronique Gens (La Princesse Marie de Gonzague), Tassis Christoyannis (Le Conseiller de Thou), Andrew...
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ARTS IN ACTION: Washington Concert Opera celebrates thirty years of bringing...
The English playwright, abolitionist, and reform-minded philanthropist Hannah More, a copy of whose 1777 drama Percy was catalogued as part of Mozart’s estate at the time of his death in 1791, wrote...
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IN MEMORIAM: South African tenor JOHAN BOTHA, 1965 - 2016
JOHAN BOTHA19 August 1965 – 8 September 2016When Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg received its first production in the United States during The Metropolitan Opera’s 1886 – 1887 Season,...
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH | September 2016: Ange Flégier — MÉLODIES POUR VOIX...
ANGE FLÉGIER (1846 – 1927): Mélodies pour voix basse et piano—Jared Schwartz, bass; Mary Dibbern, piano; Thomas Demer, viola (‘Apaisement’) [Recorded in St. Matthew’s Episcopal Cathedral, Dallas,...
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CD REVIEW: Jules Massenet — MANON (A. Massis, A. Liberatore, P. Doyen, R....
JULES MASSENET (1842 – 1912): Manon—Annick Massis (Manon), Alessandro Liberatore (Le chevalier des Grieux), Pierre Doyen (Lescaut), Roger Joakim (Le comte des Grieux), Papuna Tchuradze (Guillot de...
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PERFORMANCE REVIEW: Washington Concert Opera celebrates Thirty Years with...
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK (1714 – 1787), FRANÇOIS-ADRIEN BOIËLDIEU (1775 – 1834), GIACOMO MEYERBEER (1791 – 1864), GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792 – 1868), GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797 – 1848), VINCENZO BELLINI...
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CD REVIEW: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — ZAIDE, K. 344 (S. Bevan, A. Clayton, J....
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 – 1791): Zaide, K. 344—Sophie Bevan (Zaide), Allan Clayton (Gomatz), Jacques Imbrailo (Allazim), Stuart Jackson (Sultan Soliman), Darren Jeffery (Osmin, Zaram), Jonathan...
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CD REVIEW: BALLO TURCO – from Venice to Istanbul (F. Lombardi Mazzulli, Pera...
NEFIRI BEHRAM AĞA (? – circa 1560), FABRITIO CAROSO (1527? – after 1605), BELLEROFONTE CASTALDI (1580? – 1649), ANTONIO CESTI (1623 – 1669), MARCO DA GAGLIANO (1582 – 1643), ANDREA FALCONIERI (1585? –...
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CD REVIEW: Anton Bruckner — SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN C MINOR, WAB 102 (Orchestre...
ANTON BRUCKNER (1824 – 1896): Symphony No. 2 in C minor, WAB 102 (Robert Haas’s composite edition, published in 1938, based on Bruckner’s 1877 version, with features from previous versions)—Orchestre...
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH | October 2016: Michael Nyman — THE MAN WHO MISTOOK...
MICHAEL NYMAN (born 1944): The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat—Matthew Treviño (Dr. P), Rebecca Sjöwall (Mrs. P), Ryan MacPherson (Neurologist); Nashville Opera; Dean Williamson, conductor [Recorded...
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