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ADÈS, THOMAS: Dante (ballet) Conductor: Dudamel, Gustavo Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic Record Label: Nonesuch – 075597906165 Medium: CD A big contemporary ballet score based on The Divine Comedy sounds like the kind of cultural mega-object you’re supposed to admire more than enjoy. But Adès, who once seemed in danger of becoming merely the best-connected clever […]
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Delibes: Lakmé Mady Mesplé, soprano; Charles Burles, tenor; Roger Soyer, bass-baritone; Orchestre et Chœurs du Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique; Alain Lombard, conductor. EMI Classics 567742. Recorded 1971, Salle Wagram, Paris. 2 CDs. There is something almost poignant about Lakmé‘s reputation—an opera known primarily for two numbers, one of them famous because British Airways thought it […]
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Cozzolani: Vespro della Beata Vergine: Second Vespers for the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Magnificat — Catherine Webster, Margaret Bragle, Jennifer Ellis, Jennifer Lane, Karen Clark, Ruth Escher, Suzanne Elder Wallace, Andrea Fullington, Elizabeth Anker, voices; John Dornenburg, violone; David Tayler, theorbo; Hanneke van Proosdij, organ; Warren Stewart, conductor. Musica Omnia MO0103. […]
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Coates: Calling All Workers; From Meadow to Mayfair; Springtime; London Again; The Three Bears; With a Song in My Heart Performers — Various orchestras; Eric Coates, conductor. Naxos Historical 8.120001. Recorded 1930–40, various venues. Historical reissue. CD. There’s something almost paradoxical about Eric Coates—a man who spent years in the viola section of Henry Wood’s […]
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Massenet: Songs with Orchestra Cyrille Dubois, Véronique Gens, Étienne Dupuis, Nicole Car, Jodie Devos, Chantal Santon Jeffery; Orchestre de Chambre de Paris; Hervé Niquet, conductor Bru Zane BZ 2004 • Released June 24, 2022 • 66:00 Jules Massenet remains, for many listeners, the composer of Manon and Werther, perhaps with a few other stage works […]
