Category: Recordings

The first opera performance I consciously attended while being definitely hooked to the genre due to records, was Guillaume Tell more than 40 years ago.

Released in celebration of the recent Mozart year, Tutto Mozart! is a collection of nineteen arias, duets and other ensembles from the composerís operas that feature the baritone Bryn Terfel.

Founded in Oxford in the early 1990ís, the ensemble Charivari AgrÈable looks to seventeenth-century composers with Oxford connections as the basis for their recent recording, ìThe Oxford Psalms.î

Edita Gruberova’s North American fans, who can only hold onto dim hopes that someday the
European superstar will return to these shores, can always seek to sate their desire for her artistry by picking up the latest CD from Nightingale Classics.

“They are boys, and they sing, but don’t call them choirboys. ‘Libera’ prefer to be called a vocal group ó a real boy band, if you like.”

Between the efforts of recording companies Naxos and Opera Rara, Rossini-philes have been living in a golden age.

Philips decided some time ago that it no longer needed to be the audio representative for two fine contemporary singers of Russian origin, mezzo Olga Borodina and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

As its name suggests, the selections on this wonderful new CD are all excerpted from five different versions of the tale of the beautiful enchantress ìArmida.î

Recorded on 29 January 1978, this performance preserves a classic production of Beethovenís Fidelio, which involved a gifted cast.

When performances remain in the aural memory of the audience long after the final wave of applause, the event merits attention.