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Originally issued as individual volumes by Arabesque, Garrick Ohlsson’s integral 1990s Chopin survey returns on Hyperion as a space-saving 16-disc boxed set. Comparisons between these
Regardless of almost anything else, the success or failure of any performance of La Gioconda depends on the soprano singing the title role. The voice
This is an outstanding Respighi collection. Ewa Podles sings Il tramonto (Sunset) very beautifully, with a keen feeling for the sense of the text. Her
This is a great work, and this recording does it justice. Gluck is not one of my favorites; all of his “reforms” seem to get
My goodness, the record business has gotten to be incestuous! These are adequate performances, at times better than that, recorded live before a mostly quiet
This is a good Orfeo, an amalgam of the original (1762) version and later, attractive additions. It also includes the bravura, razzle-dazzle aria that ends
Fans of the great Polish contralto/mezzo Ewa Podles should race to get this CD. Her voice is remarkable: dark, rich, huge, multifaceted in its expressivity,
For listeners enamored of the icy-cold string scrapes and screeches of Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, this double-disc set devoted to his orchestral
No matter how hard you try, it’s impossible to hear this music nowadays without drawing comparisons with Marilyn Horne, who, for most of us at
Chopin composed only 19 songs, but they cover almost his entire compositional career, from 1829 to 1847. They are direct and uncomplicated, each dealing with
