Benjamin Britten's recordings of his own operas are definitive -- cutting out the interpretive middle man and going straight to the heart of every bar, every scene. For sure, there are better sounding, and in many cases better sung, recordings to be had, especially of the popular works like Peter Grimes and Billy Budd; but none of them are as ...
"The Only (fill in the blank) Album You Will Ever Need" is a clichéd formula, and collections bearing some variant of that title should immediately raise suspicions. Most are unsurprising in their selections, usually only the best-known chestnuts competently played by studio musicians, but rarely are they the most essential works or among the best ...
American composer James Hartway is, by his own admission, rather accessible when it comes to composing pieces on commission. This album of four of his chamber works features three such commissioned works. Hartway's approach to composition is very visual, the themes for many movements evoking imagery either directly through lyrics, as in "Imaginary ...
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