The Brilliant label, from the Netherlands, has inundated the Western world with its giant budget boxes. What might be called bulk classical has intrinsic virtues and negatives, but like anything else it can be done well or done poorly. This Mozart box contains no fewer than 15 CDs, at just over five dollars a disc. It contains every piece of ...
There are only two things wrong with this set of the complete a cappella choral works of Brahms by Nicol Matt conducting the Chamber Choir of Europe: it's not quite complete and it's not quite a cappella. There are a good half-dozen works with accompaniment, usually a piano or two, and once with two horns and a harp. That's fine: it put even more ...
Mozart's one-act opera Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) was written to be performed as half of a double bill that included Salieri's Prima la musica, e poi le parole (First the music, and then the words) in 1786. Both operas deal with the clash of artistic temperaments as impediments to the production of an opera. In Der Schauspieldirektor, ...
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