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Bernstein Redux: TV Youth Concerts A Lasting Treasury
By Richard S. Ginell DIGITAL REVIEW - Nearly half of Leonard Bernstein's 53 Young People's Concerts were released in 1993 to general rapture. Now, after an exhaustive process of locating, remastering...
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New CD Captures Sonorous Power Of Adams’ Other Mary
By Richard S. Ginell DIGITAL REVIEW – John Adams' 'The Gospel According to the Other Mary' has received an enviably high-powered sendoff, with an international tour and now a dynamic DG recording led...
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Downsized Mahler Second Symphony Is Mixed Bargain
By Richard Ginell DIGITAL REVIEW – Gilbert Kaplan, who conducts only one work in public, the "Resurrection" Symphony, and who has already made two recordings, has just issued a third, for small...
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French Orientalist Opera Revived In Stylish Recording
By Marvin J. Ward DIGITAL REVIEW – Félicien David's exotically tinged Lalla Roukh was popular at the Opéra-Comique in 1862, but it disappeared from the repertoire with its century. Naxos preserves its...
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Seattle Symphony Spotlights Carter In Label Launch
By Richard S. Ginell DIGITAL REVIEW - Joining the go-it-alone recording trend, the Seattle Symphony under Ludovic Morlot has issued an all-American release including Elliott Carter's Instances,...
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Berlin PO Blazes Own Trail With Schumann Discs
By Nancy Malitz DIGITAL REVIEW - In recording circles, May 2014 will be remembered as the Berlin Philharmonic's new spring. A bold Schumann project under Simon Rattle is the orchestra's first venture...
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Nézet-Séguin CDs Display Schumann In Classical Light
By Paul Hyde DIGITAL REVIEW – Working with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads streamlined readings of Schumann's four symphonies that bring out considerable detail often lost...
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Swinging, Soulful B’way Cast Clicks In West Side Story
By Richard S. Ginell Rejecting Leonard Bernstein's disjointed operatic approach, Michael Tilson Thomas' new recording is all of a piece, the sound of 1957 Broadway stretching confidently into fresh,...
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Stravinsky’s Dim Hollywood Years Conjured on DVD
By Richard S. Ginell DIGITAL REVIEW – In just 52 minutes, Marco Capalbo's new film summarizes how Stravinsky's stay in Southern California prompted a rebirth of his creative energies even though he...
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Crumb’s Spanish, American Songs Make CD Debuts
By Richard S. Ginell DIGITAL REVIEW - Before long, it seems, the words of Federico García Lorca will be set almost as many times as those of Shakespeare. For George Crumb, Sun and Shadow (2009) is his...
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Andriessen Opera Makes Impact In Audio And Video
By Richard S. Ginell DIGITAL REVIEW -- The inventive Dutch composer's La Commedia is a burst of audacious and eclectic ideas — based on Dante's The Divine Comedy — in its CD/DVD debut. Expect equal...
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Lost Swedish Epic The Jewish Song Reprinted On CD
By Paul E. Robinson DIGITAL REVIEW - There is really no excuse for Moses Pergament's magnum opus to languish in obscurity. The new CD incarnation of a notable 1974 LP may help to bring overdue...
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Bartoli Rekindles Trove Of Arias From Old Russia
By Paul E. Robinson DIGITAL REVIEW - France was the model for Russia's tsaritsas, but not in musical matters. Italian composers beat a path to St. Petersburg in the 18th century. In her CD research...
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Ring In Seattle: Echt Wagner From Spirited Ensemble
By Richard S. Ginell DIGITAL REVIEW — Against all odds, the upstart Seattle Opera made Wagner’s Ring its signature achievement in 1975, and just as astonishingly kept at it. Now the company is taking...
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Stunning Babi Yar Caps Shostakovich Cycle By Petrenko
By Richard S. Ginell DIGITAL REVIEW - Once a rarity, complete recordings of Shostakovich’s 15 symphonies now number well over a dozen. One of the best has just reached its conclusion with a powerful...
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In Piano Duets, Schubert Sings, Rite Isn’t Quite
By Robert Battey DIGITAL REVIEW - Former Buenos Aires child prodigies Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim often collaborate as soloist and conductor, but before a concert caught on DG they had played...
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Chailly’s Brahms Redux: Luminous Via Blu-ray Audio
By Lawrence B. Johnson DIGITAL REVIEW - How could anyone be blasé about holding a substantial chunk of Brahms' life’s work on one little disc? Yet these Leipzig Gewandhaus performances with Riccardo...
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Stellar DVD Set Offers Cavalcade Of Strauss Operas
By Paul E. Robinson DIGITAL REVIEW - As part of the 150th Richard Strauss birthday celebrations in 2014, descendants selected seven of his operas captured on video from as early as 1965 for an...
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In Recaptured 7th, Echo Of Great One That Got Away
By Richard S. Ginell DIGITAL REVIEW - Dudamel’s recording from Caracas, with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, has many of the qualities that made their Los Angeles performance something to savor,...
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2 Recordings Pull Composers From History’s Shadow
By Paul E. Robinson Clara Schumann's half-brother Woldemar Bargiel, well-known in his time, is one of two composers whose music has been rescued on recent recordings. The other taught Bernstein,...
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