In his 1961 essay “Style and ‘Styles’ in Music,” Roger Sessions draws the distinction between stylistic range and stylistic refinement, and identifies with the former the...
This well-conceived, received, conducted, and recorded cycle of the Schubert Symphonies is a reissue from 1997. Essentials of recent Schubert scholarship were already in place at...
There is little that bugs me more than when booklet notes begin by invidious comparisons. Such is the case with this disc, where the opening paragraphs...
This latest installment in Dutton’s invaluable—and seemingly exhaustive—survey of Richard Arnell’s large catalogue opens with two works from his precociously prolific early-20s and closes with two...
This massive set, containing the entire official Wagnerian canon, consists of DVDs previously issued as individual operas but here assembled in a convenient box measuring 5”...
Whatever else you can say about her, director Francesca Zambello does not readily fall into conventional thinking. Last summer, she surprised audiences by mounting Aida
Arabella is one of Richard Strauss’s more popular works, his last in collaboration with master librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who died before final editing could be...
Here we have a well played, very stodgy version of Nielsen’s Second Symphony. There’s no accenting or phrasing to remind us of the collerico part in...
