Author Archive
Magdalena Kožená teams up with Simon Rattle’s BPO for debut orchestral songs recording on DG – May 07, 2012
Magdalena Kožená has recorded orchestral songs by Ravel, Dvořák and Mahler with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker for Deutsche Grammophon. Love and [...]
BERG / HARTMANN Tief in der Nacht – May 04, 2012
That song was Alban Berg’s means, in musical terms, of learning to walk before he could run has long been recognized, although the relative [...]
Evan Mack’s opera ‘Angel of the Amazon’ released by Albany Records – May 03, 2012
A recording of the 2011 New York premiere production of Evan Mack’s Angel of the Amazon is to be released by Albany Records. The [...]
DANIEL BARENBOIM Liszt Piano Concertos – May 02, 2012
Never out of the repertoire during their 150-year history, Liszt’s piano concertos hardly convey the extent of his achievement yet remain among the highpoints [...]
Michael Tilson Thomas continues San Francisco Beethoven cycle with Symphony No. 7 and ‘Leonore’ No. 3 – May 01, 2012
Michael Tilson Thomas’s Beethoven symphony cycle with the San Francisco Symphony continues with a coupling of the Seventh Symphony and the Third Leonore Overture [...]
Daniel Barenboim’s acclaimed Bruckner 7 with the Staatskapelle Berlin to be released by DG – Apr 30, 2012
Deutsche Grammophon is to release a live recording of Daniel Bruckner’s acclaimed performance of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony with the Staatskapelle Berlin in June 2010. [...]
L’ARPEGGIATA Los Pajaros Perdidos – Apr 27, 2012
As long as you appreciate that what Christina Pluhar does with her pseudo-early music ensemble L’Arpeggiata is crossover, you will understand how to assess [...]
Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini to restore lost Italian treasures from 1612 for Decca – Apr 26, 2012
Conductor Robert Hollingworth and the British vocal ensemble I Fagiolini are to reconstruct a 400-year-old lost choral masterpiece for seven choirs and release world-premiere [...]
VASALLO Monuments Emerge – Apr 25, 2012
The music of Asian-American composer Nick Vasallo is characterized by a fastidiously shaped palette in which form and function is determined by a series [...]
PACIFICA QUARTET The Soviet Experience, Volume 2 – Apr 23, 2012
Having launched its four-volume, eight-disc cycle of Shostakovich’s 15 string quartets with Quartets Nos. 5-8 (Michael Quinn gave the set an enthusiastic welcome at [...]
