These are beautifully sung, emotionally nuanced performances of 18 of Schubert's settings of Schiller arranged in a nicely balanced program. Unfortunately, it has two things against it: ballades that seem to go on forever, and second and even third versions of settings of the same text. Maya Boog has a haunting lyrical soprano, Lothar Odinius has ...
The release of Heitor Villa-Lobos: Symphony No. 10 "Amerindia" brings to a close CPO's ambitious cycle of Villa-Lobos' complete symphonies under Carl St. Clair; the only symphony not included in the CPO cycle is No. 5, the score for which remains lost. This cycle has been "in the can" for quite some time -- CPO's disc was recorded in 1999, but not ...
Although you would never know it from the extent to which it has been recorded, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Great Mass" in C minor comes down to us incomplete and represents one of his most problematic scores. The two principal scores in which the music is found, namely Mozart's manuscript and a set of parts for a 1783 performance of the piece, ...
Mozart's songs usually appear in single-disc collections, for to fill out two discs to make up Mozart's "complete" songs, as is done on this Naxos release, requires the inclusion of peripheral items such as the mandolin version of Die Zufriedenheit (Was frag ich viel nach Geld und Gut), K. 349; the very early An die Freude, K. 53 (which is not a ...
The recordings of German conductor Helmuth Rilling are sometimes unorthodox, especially when he goes beyond his central specialty: the music of J.S. Bach. These Haydn recordings exemplify both Rilling's strengths and his unorthodox qualities. As usual, Rilling uses modern instruments and fairly substantial choirs. Yet his approach to the Lord ...
Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) has always been a challenge to convincingly produce. It consists only of an overture and four musical numbers, hardly enough to make for a full operatic experience, even a brief one. This version, in a new edition with updated spoken dialogue by Eberhard Streul, though, is both musically and ...
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