The Philadelphia Chamber String Simfonietta was formed in 1925 by 17 string players from Stokowski’s Philadelphia Orchestra. Its conductor, Fabien Sevitzky, was a double bass player...

Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797) achieved his first and greatest success as it were by stealth. In his 1773 memoirs, Jean Monnet, the Opéra-Comique’s former impresario, discussed how...

Recently I had a chance to chat by telephone with Stephen Cleobury, director of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Q: It’s a great honor to...

Formed in 1992, the Arianna Quartet gained national attention by winning the Grand Prize in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and First Prize in both the...

In the 20-plus years that I have been contributing to this publication, I’ve noticed a huge sea change. When I started, Fanfare’s emphasis seemed to be...

This is not the first time Marc-André Hamelin has been competing with himself for a position on my Want List. And if his recording of his...

The baroque cantata went through a period of evolution before it reached its zenith in the examples left to posterity by Bach. Placing opera and oratorio...

This is less a Hall of Fame candidate than a candidate for reappraisal. To my mind it is very good and worth any collector’s consideration. I...

Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797) achieved his first and greatest success as it were by stealth. In his 1773 memoirs, Jean Monnet, the Opéra-Comique’s former impresario, discussed how...

Rita is one of the few operas by Donizetti that was not performed during the composer’s lifetime; it received its premiere about 10 years after his...

The intention and the content of this book are admirable, but its form is problematic. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that it is...

The musicologist E. Eugene Helm is well known as the compiler of the latest thematic catalogue of the works of C. P. E. Bach (Yale, 1989),...

It seems to be the in-vogue thing nowadays, at least insofar as European jazz groups go, to issue CDs with absolutely no information as to who...

The sparse liner notes for this release, covering but one flap of the foldover cardboard container, indicate that this concert was part of Ellington’s last European...

The Philadelphia Chamber String Simfonietta was formed in 1925 by 17 string players from Stokowski’s Philadelphia Orchestra. Its conductor, Fabien Sevitzky, was a double bass player...

The theme on this latest release by the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra is that of folk music in a classical context, not distanced (at least, musically) by...

This disc flies under false colors: Its cover loudly proclaims “BRUNDIBÁR,” making one expect Hans Krása’s complete opera, whereas what we get is a suite therefrom,...

The title of this album, La Voie triomphale ( The Triumphal Way ), is described in the program notes as “the straight axis leading through central...

Here’s something different: a jazz piano recital by a Bulgarian musician trained in percussion, classical piano, and conducting studies. Denev (b. 1951) has, the notes tell...

The title of this disc evokes the rather stratified, frivolous, and perhaps even decadent court society of Louis XV, a period in French music when chamber...

It is difficult to discuss Italian songs of the 19th and early 20th century without mentioning opera. Unlike the most famous purveyors of German Lieder, Schubert,...

What is it with the baroque early music movement? It seems that we are now inundated with a plethora of excellent male singers who have tackled,...

Like the Queen in later times, these works are plump, plush, decorous, dignified, standing for something but not counting for much in and of themselves. This...

The Choir of the Chapels Royal is new to me, though it dates back to 1966, and the label formerly known as London International Records is...

As far back as Fanfare 25:1, this magazine published an interview with Doug Fullington. His Seattle-based choir has been praised here for several recordings on different...

This disc, which followed Delectamentum ( Fanfare 33:3) in the Schola’s program, was not sent for review, but there are several reasons for hearing it now....

What is Georg Solti’s place in the pantheon of podium titans? He gained celebrity when he led the first complete recording of Wagner’s Ring to be...

My colleagues Peter Burwasser and Raymond Tuttle have already reviewed this disc in the previous issue, and I have no complaints about their views. I just...