This excellent disc brings together two ballet scores from the far ends of Leonard Bernstein’s compositional career.
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Kurt Weill on Broadway: Songs and Orchestrations by Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill’s perennial appeal can be attributed to various factors, not the least of which is the genuine craft of his stage works.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Film music has become a sort of refuge for some music lovers turned off by the work of those serious music composers who have turned increasingly away from attempting an encounter with a broader public, retreating into an insular word of academic composition.
The Metropolitan Opera on DVD: Elektra, Luisa Miller and Tosca
With some deliberation the Metropolitan Opera releases DVD versions of live television broadcasts from its heyday as a PBS mainstay.
San Diego Opera ó Il Trovatore
Verdi’s magnificent melodrama Il Trovatore may be the most masculine of his creations, but the production that San Diego Opera presented as the third opera of its 2007 season was a triumph for the ladies.
JosÈ Carreras Collection
A classic Seinfeld episode revolved around a brush with the “third” of the Three Tenors – the one whom no one could quite put a name to.
HANDEL: Poro, Re dell’Indie
Let’s face it, Handel’s “Poro, Re dell’Indie” (in English “Porus, King of India”) isn’t exactly a household name in any but the most dedicated baroque opera circles.
Camacho’s Wedding (Die Hochzeit des Camacho)
UC Opera now have a half-century’s reputation to live up to; they were responsible for the UK premieres of such works as Das Liebesverbot, The Maid of Orleans, Alzira, Oberto and the 1847 version of Macbeth.
BRUCKNER: Lateinische Motetten — Latin Motets
Known almost iconically for his symphonies, Anton Bruckner devoted a great deal of his compositional output to vocal music, including choral works in both German and Latin.
RAMEAU: Platée, Pigmalion, Dardanus Ballet Suites
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French instrumental music was closely identified with dance and dance suites.