Category: Recordings

This is an absolutely wonderful, live performance recording of two of Mozartís best operas, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte.

This is an absolutely fabulous recording of Schubertís final symphony, which is often compared as his closest composition to the style of Beethoven.

In the 1990ís Pierre Audi staged productions of Monteverdiís three surviving operas (LíOrfeo, Il ritorno díUlisse in patria, and Líincoronazione di Poppea) with De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam.

Of all opera singers of the last century, no one better dominated the genreís star power than Maria Callas. During her thirty-four years onstage, she came to embody the essence of the term ìdiva,î both in her stormy personal life and her equally tempestuous stage career.

Barbara Bonneyís discography is extensive and wide-ranging, including opera and oratorio, as well as lieder recitals from Mozart and Mendelssohn through the major Romantics to Zemlinsky.

Of the countertenors coming to the fore in the generation following Alfred Deller, few, if any, have achieved the prominence or performance longevity of James Bowman.

The Nutcracker is one of the most popular ballets. Tchaikovskyís score alone is synonymous with Christmasóone can even say that it is what keeps this ballet alive.

A critical aspect of Mahlerís music is the way the composer often juxtaposed the familiar and the new, and this dichotomy is reflected strongly in his Fourth Symphony.

Some opera sets are meant to be an introduction to the work presented. They contain a booklet which tells you about the life of the composer, the history of the work, some analysis, a synopsis of the story, and maybe (if you’re lucky) the libretto translated into your language.

This recording features piano works by the pillars of nineteenth-century Romantic piano composition (Chopin and Liszt), the Spanish-speaking musical nationalists (Granados, Ginastera, and de Falla), and the Russian composer-pianists (Scriabin and Rachmaninov) who reinterpreted the Romantic spirit in new and innovative ways for the piano.