LUTOSLAWSKI: Twenty Polish Christmas Carols

Witold Lutos?awski (1913-94) composed vocal works throughout his career, and recording collects several pieces that involve female voices. His set of Twenty Polish Christmas Carols for soprano, womenís choir and orchestra is a late composition compiled between 1985 and 1989 and given its premiere in 1990.

Christmas with RenÈe and Bryn

Though singers have always recorded some of these arias and songs, it was young Leontyne Price who first started a trend by devoting a whole LP to the genre more than 45 years ago.

RACHMANINOV: The Miserly Knight

In its 2004 season Glyndebourne put on a double bill celebrating avarice ó Pucciniís Gianni Schicchi and the much-lesser known The Miserly Knight.

An Enjoyable Farce of an Operetta

http://www.nysun.com/article/24773

National Opera chairman quits

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/theatre/news/article334581.ece

This Barber is a cut above

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/21/bmbarber21.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/12/21/ixartright.html

Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music

http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3825

Beethoven: The Universal Composer

http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3814

Internet encyclopaedias go head to head ó Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html

Giulini Conducts Mozart and Mahler

With the passing of Carl Maria Giulini (1913-2005) in June 2005, the music world lost one of its finest conductors. Among his legacy are some critical recordings, which represent the literature that Giulini chose to preserve.