Technically, the insides of this package from Naxos deliver what the outside promises: an "A to Z" compilation of classical composers, a 562-page book, and over 150 minutes of music. The implication would be, however, that the book is coordinated with the music, which is only loosely true. The book is a little biographical dictionary covering ...
This two-disc set entitled An Anthology of English Song is just what it says it is: a very generous collection of 53 selections drawn from 13 separate discs of songs by English composers from Stanford to Britten. Some were first issued in the '90s on the late Collins label. Some were first issued in the 2000s on the vibrant Naxos label. But all ...
Before she landed a contract with EMI, cellist Jacqueline du Pré made a few recordings for the BBC. Or, more properly put, she made a few broadcasts for the BBC which, after she landed her EMI contract, became recordings. The du Pré of the EMI recordings was a powerful and expressive player who gave everything she had to the music she performed. ...
The weather outside may be frightful, but Winter: A Collection of Seasonal Classics is not especially delightful or quite the thing to take the chill off. By themselves, the selections are perfectly fine stocking-stuffers, such as Vivaldi's "Winter Concerto" from the Four Seasons, Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" and "Waltz of the ...
Due to the profundity of Beethoven's late string quartets and the significance composers and critics have placed on them, few modern string quartets have been regarded as masterpieces on the same level. Bartók's, yes, and Shostakovich's, but almost no other set of twentieth century quartets has been similarly elevated. It is almost axiomatic, then ...
Benjamin Britten's own recordings of his operas must be considered authoritative, but any great art can yield insights from a variety of interpretations, and an objective performer may find felicities in a score of which the composer was hardly aware. Additionally, new recording technology can create a truer realization of the sound, and in vocal ...
Bryn Terfel's overdue sequel to his highly successful The Vagabond (1995) dips deeper yet into the barrel of English song, hauling up a number of unfamiliar composers and songs, and interspersing them with favorites by Roger Quilter, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Benjamin Britten. It's a far more diverse collection than The Vagabond, lavishing ...
What can be said about Britten's War Requiem that hasn't already been said? That it is brilliantly composed, endlessly fascinating, and profoundly affecting? That it is lyrically heartrending, musically heartbreaking, and emotionally devastating? That it is the single most persuasive setting of the Requiem text of the twentieth century? That is ...
Virgin has reissued its 1991 world-premiere recording of Tavener's The Protecting Veil, for cello and strings, along with his Thrinos for solo cello and Britten's Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87. All are superbly performed by Steven Isserlis, accompanied in The Protecting Veil by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The ...
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