Category: Recordings

Here is another handsome production of an early Rossini one-act comedy from the Schwetzingen festival, held at the charming and tiny Rokoko theater in May 1990.

In recent years the Sixth Symphony of Gustav Mahler has gained some prominence with the declaration by the internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft about the only correct order of the internal movements, a position that has inspired some discussion among enthusiasts.

The booklet somewhat proudly tells us that “a modern Italian opera-going public would likely walk out in horror if confronted with the avant-garde productions of many German opera houses.

Frank Sinatra had Reprise. The Beatles had Apple. Madonna has Maverick. And Edita Gruberova has Nightingale.

Joe Dubiel is a well known and accomplished music theorist, affable, pleasant in demeanor, learned and astute, and above all friendly in a field that has its thorns and brambles.

A recent newspaper report ó the sort of item conveyed in a short paragraph and relegated to a column of such brief pieces ó summarized a study that argues that Mozart did not die a pauper, but actually had a fairly steady stream of income.

Passion for music is hardly rare, but it is welcome to hear it espoused in public, especially by some of the art’s strongest proponents.

This wonderful CD was recorded in the magnificent church of Notre Dame, Rozay-en-Brie, which is 30 miles east of Paris, and contains one of the better-preserved French organs of the seventeenth century, actually played by Francois Couperin during his lifetime.

In recent years a number of the number of recordings of Mahler’s works have become available on DVD.

Why would anyone want to replace his LP-version on MRF? Because his records are scratched and it is too much trouble to put everything on CD.