For listeners who prefer their Ravel lushly textured, luminously colored, and luxuriantly impressionistic, this four-disc set of his orchestral music performed by Charles Dutoit and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal will be just the thing. Recorded between 1981 and 1995 in warmly opulent Decca sound and including all the canonical works plus ...
EMI has reissued Virgin's 1992 recording of Dialogues des Carmélites with Kent Nagano leading l'Opéra de Lyon and an outstanding group of soloists in a performance that emphasizes the opera's dramatic qualities. It's inevitable to compare any new recording with the first, made in 1958, with Pierre Dervaux leading a comparably outstanding group of ...
Although produced in quick succession in Chicago, New York, Cologne, Berlin, Leningrad, and Moscow in the '20s, Prokofiev's opera L'Amour des Trois Oranges as quickly dropped out of the repertoire and has only rarely been heard since. Various reasons for this eclipse have been suggested: that the opera was too light, too ironic, too scattered and ...
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