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Puccini: Turandot

Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot), Jonas Kaufmann (Calaf), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Michele Pertusi (Timur), Michael Spyres (Altoum), Mattia Olivieri (Ping), Gregory Bonfatti (Pang), Siyabonga Maqungo (Pong), Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano Warner Classics · 5419740659 · 2 hours 4 minutes There’s something genuinely thrilling about hearing Radvanovsky’s steel and Kaufmann’s burnished heroics go head to head […]

PUCCINI | 26.08.07
Mozart in Paris: The Symphony and the Deathbed

In June of 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sat in a cramped Paris apartment finishing a symphony. His mother lay in the next room, dying by inches. He was twenty-two. His father, Leopold, had sent him out from Salzburg the year before on a job-hunting tour: Augsburg, then Mannheim, then Paris, with Anna Maria along as […]

MOZART | 26.08.07
Who Is Classical Guy?

Classical Guy (classicalguy.com) was founded and run by Tom Fasano, covering classical music recordings the way they should be covered — the best, the worst, and everything worth arguing about. Reviews, commentary, and discussion of all things classical, for people who love the music and could not care less about “high culture” pretension. This is […]

26.08.06
Frank Bridge: – Cello Sonatas

Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano), The Royal Danish Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård Naxos · 8573690 · 73 minutes There’s something about English cello writing from this era that feels like walking through fog on a coastline — Bridge, Elgar, and Ireland all mine that same melancholic vein, but each with a distinct shade of grey. Brantelid seems to understand […]

CELLO SONATAS | 26.08.05
Telemann: – Concerto TWV 51:D8 in D major for horn, strings & b.c.

RJ Kelley (horn), Alexandra Cook (horn), John Aubrey (horn), Krista Bennion Feeney (violin)Palisades Baroque, Richard Dunn Centaur · CRC3380 · 75 minutes Horn concertos from the Baroque era are a bit of a minor miracle when you stop to think about it — natural horns with no valves, played by people who somehow nail the intonation on notes that […]

HORN CONCERTOS | 26.08.05