Donizetti: Alfredo il Grande Antonino Siragusa and Antonio Garés, tenors; Gilda Fiume, soprano; Valeria Girardello, mezzo-soprano; Lodovico Filippo Ravizza, baritone; Adolfo Corrado, bass; Hungarian Radio…
Donizetti: L’aio nell’imbarazzo Alessandro Corbelli (Giulio), Alex Esposito (Gregorio), Francesco Lucii (Enrico), Marilena Ruta (Gilda), Lorenzo Martelli (Pippetto), Caterina Dellaere (Leonarda); Orchestra and Chorus of…
If it’s summer music you’re after, it doesn’t come much sunnier than this. Castelnuovo-Tedesco – it translates as Newcastle German – was a Florentine who traced his lineage to the Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492.
Baroque Arias from Europe Thalia Moutopoulou, soprano; Michel Cardin, theorbo; Chrysostomos Kalogridakis, tenor and guitar ALEA III, 2023 This album, the result of a collaboration…
TORONTO, May 14, 2022 /CNW/ – For the first time in three years, The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) honoured artists and…
Covid has narrowed our outlook so severely that we are hardly aware of the world abroad. Brazil has suffered 19 million cases with more than…
The Czech composer Vitezlava Kapralova died in the early weeks of the German occupation of France, at the age of 25. Two months before, she had…
Half a century after Bartok and Kodaly toured the Hungarian plains with an early Edison phonograph in search of authentic Magyar music, students of the…
Georg Solti used to say that Leo Weiner (1885-1960) was his best teacher in Budapest. Since his other professors at the Franz Liszt Academy included…
I often wonder when listening to Silvestrov’s music why he is not one of the most performed living composers. His music is at once mentally…
