Category: Recordings

Krzyzstof Penderecki (b. 1933) has contributed a body of works to the modern repertoire, and his Symphony no. 7, which he composed 1996 (premiere 1997 in Jerusalem), is an impressive composition.

The orchestral songs of Gustav Mahler remain an important contribution to the genre, and stand
well alongside similar works by Berlioz, Wolf, and Strauss.

This sumptuous 2006 release was recorded live in the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg in late
1993 for European TV broadcast the following year.

“Linvitation au voyage” is an appropriate title for this collection of French song, which makes available a number of fine performances of both familiar and rare works.

With a label such as Gala, a purveyor of live recordings of various provenance, some adjustment to compromised sound quality can be expected.

This excellent disc brings together two ballet scores from the far ends of Leonard Bernstein’s compositional career.

Kurt Weill’s perennial appeal can be attributed to various factors, not the least of which is the genuine craft of his stage works.

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.

With some deliberation the Metropolitan Opera releases DVD versions of live television broadcasts from its heyday as a PBS mainstay.

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.