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...
Francisco António de Almeida (c.1702-c.1755) is said to have been the first composer to write an Italian opera performed in Portugal (which must be one of...
The more I listen to fine performances of Mozart’s concertos and symphonies on period instruments, the less tolerant I am of hearing these works on modern...
With Françaix’s 100th birthday in 2012, Wergo reissued much of the composer’s backlog they’ve let collect in their vaults—roughly a third of it, last seen on...
Violinist Stephan Schardt and pianist Philipp Vogler present works for solo violin (the Suite, op. 43) and for violin and piano (the rest) by Ferdinand David,...
Roman Zaslavsky is a youngish Russian-Israeli pianist; although he has a string of competition victories going back at least 15 years, this seems to be his...
