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In many respects Jorge Bolet (1914-1990) was an outlier, a […]
If you are a lover of Christmas music—carols, popular songs, and all manner of medleys and clever arrangements of such—and you miss this extraordinary recording
Some potential listeners might wonder why they should be interested in an hour-plus program consisting of 20 mostly unfamiliar Czech and Moravian Christmas carols. Perhaps
There’s nothing like Christmas to bring out a composer’s more unapologetically clever and enthusiastically indulgent, prodigiously inventive ideas, in apparent realization of childhood’s most extravagant
The reason to buy this set is for the Magnificat, the original but rarely recorded E-flat version from 1723, which certainly gets its most exciting
Here is as fine a survey of Advent and Christmas choral music as you’ll find these days, presented by one of the best and most
As with his recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, John Wilson similarly subjects the team’s follow-up musical Carousel to inclusive textual rectitude. Here Wilson aims
Victor Nicoara’s 2021 release featuring Busoni’s Six Sonatinas introduced a pianist whose technical mastery and full-bodied sonority proved an ideal match for this composer’s idiom.
It’s easy to hear the opening of Frank Martin’s Mass and think–Vaughan Williams, as in his own setting for a cappella double choir, composed in
This early ballet (1916), which plays for a bit over
