“Different” and “unusual” are words I would use to characterize this Lieder collection. To begin with, the accompaniments to all of these songs have been transcribed...
Anne Sofie von Otter’s chameleon qualities have resulted in a large number of recordings of an extremely diverse repertoire, including selections from the Italian, German, and...
In 1994, soprano Sylvia Greenberg and her pianist/conductor/husband, David Aronson, moved into an apartment at Theobaldgasse 7 in Vienna, near the Vienna Staatsoper. Shortly afterward they...
This is an interesting selection of very early material featuring a young Irmgard Seefried, including at least two rarities. One of these is Cornelius’s Brautlieder
This disc is an exceptionally well conceived “concept album.” The premise seems almost embarrassingly obvious—a traversal of the four seasons of the year (spring, summer, autumn,...
This CD is Bryn Terfel’s answer (commercially speaking) to René Pape’s Gods, Kings, and Demons, which appeared on the same label in 2008, which in turn...
This disc is interesting, and valuable, on many levels. It offers strong, distinctive singing and conducting, an unusually imaginative intelligence applied to the programming, extremely natural...
This is an unqualified rave. Hermann Prey (1929–98) possessed one of the most stunningly beautiful singing voices ever to grace this planet—a baritone of caressing, velvety...
Exquisite . That is the word that kept occurring to me as I listened through this lovely disc. Amel Brahim-Djelloul is a young Algerian-born, French-trained lyric...
