Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, his difficult, unruly stepchild of an opera that was left unfinished at his death in 1881, has never had much popularity or success either...
“Percussive Palooza”? You might think that this title portends a tourist-boat visit to the musical shallows where noisy bombast reigns and serious musical interest is avoided...
It would be easy for a critic, particularly when reviewing Emilio Aragón’s purely instrumental works, to criticize him for over-lushness, a certain echt- Romanticism in keeping...
Tosca has fared well on DVD. No great surprise, given its unashamed appeal to our baser instincts and Puccini’s blatant manipulation of the listener’s emotions. This...
Strauss started work on Ariadne auf Naxos almost immediately after the 1911 premiere of Der Rosenkavalier . It therefore represents the composer at the absolute peak...
Encore Home Video’s issue of four of Florian ZaBach’s TV shows from 1954 and 1955 makes the artistry (or “poetry,” as the title would—and ZaBach’s own...
