Great as it is -- and, let's face it, it's the greatest symphony ever written -- the Ninth Symphony isn't Beethoven's greatest choral-orchestral work. His greatest choral-orchestral work, as Beethoven was the first to point out, was the Missa Solemnis. After all, the Ninth may be great through and through, but it's only choral-orchestral in the ...
While Charles Mackerras recorded Mozart's complete Piano Concertos and Symphonies for Telarc in the late Eighties and early Nineties, he recorded only four of Mozart's operas, the three Da Ponte operas plus Die Zauberflöte. More than a decade later, Deutsche Grammophon filled a conspicuous hole in catalogue with Mackerras' recording of La Clemenza ...
That Franz Schubert's operatic works have received as many recordings as they have is a testament to the composer's place in the hearts of musicians. Since only three of his 14 stage works were ever performed during his lifetime, all unsuccessfully, they could just as easily be left on the scrap heap of history. This is especially true since even ...
The Naxos label's new Schubert song series, based on a new edition of the songs, is organized as Schubert himself envisioned and partially carried out the publication of his works: by text author. The recordings of the top-notch songs have been mostly competent rather than top-notch, but this method often conveys loads of information about the ...
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