There are riches galore in this fourth volume from SWR Music devoted to the recorded legacy of Michael Gielen (who turns 90 this September). The focus...
Volume 2 in SWR Music's exceedingly welcome and comprehensive Michael Gielen Edition is devoted to a composite cycle of Bruckner symphonies made up of...
Mendelssohn symphonies on period instruments: Frans Brüggen has been here before, and so has John Eliot Gardiner. The Freiburger Barockorchester are...
Tricked into marriage with Giannciotto while in love with his brother Paolo, Francesca is also desired by their third brother Malatestino. This opera...
Recorded in fine sound from live concerts, this is an enterprising traversal of Mozart’s major baritone arias for the noblemen and servants from the...
Andreas Staier busies himself very much as a first among equals, his Freiburg colleagues keeping up energy levels with a full body of tone and a firm...
This beautiful recording is of a three-act opera which was originally a four-act disaster – Cilea revised it several times over forty years. It is a...