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Bru Zane

Opera CD Review: Two Splendid World-Premiere Recordings Rediscover an Exotic Master of Song — Reynaldo Hahn

Attention is being paid today to talented composers who have been sidelined or disdained because of their race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. Reynaldo Hahn qualifies on several counts.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Bru Zane, L’Île du rêve, Ô mon bel inconnu, Ralph P. Locke, Reynaldo Hahn

Opera Album Review: Saint-Saëns’s Opera about a Little Silver Bell Works Its Magic

The world-premiere recording of a first rate production of a brilliant, fantastical opera, unstaged and unheard since 1914.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Bru Zane, Francois-Xavier Roth, Le timbre d’argent, Ralph P. Locke, Saint-Saëns, The Silver Bell

Opera Album Review: Offenbach in a Spanish Mood, in a Top-notch First Recording

Bravo to the Bru Zane folks for this latest triumph! I encourage opera lovers to get to know this treasurable Spanish (or faux-Spanish) work by the pioneering master of nineteenth-century operetta.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Bru Zane, French National Orchestra, French Radio Chorus, Jacques-Offenbach, Maître Péronilla, operetta, Ralph P. Locke

Best Opera and Vocal (Recordings, Books, and a Performance), 2019

This year has brought a bumper crop of wonderful recordings of unusual operas — and one unusual recording of a repertory staple: Gounod’s Faust.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Bru Zane

Opera Review: Ready for a Very Different “Faust”? You Should Be!

Even taking into consideration my several objections, this Faust is one of the most accomplished and intriguing opera releases of recent years.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Bru Zane, Faust, GOUNOD, Les Talens Lyriques, Ralph Locke

Opera Album Review: Muslims vs. Christians in 10th-Century Spain, Portrayed in an 1881 Gounod Opera (World-Premiere Recording)

Gounod was no mere purveyor of gentle sentiments. This 1881 opera, superbly performed, shows plenty of drama and grit.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Bavarian Radio Chorus, Bru Zane, Hervé Niquet, Le tribut de Zamora, Munich Radio Orchestra, Palazetto Bru Zane, Ralph P. Locke

Classical CD Reviews: Offenbach’s “La Périchole,” Aaron Jay Kernis’ Orchestral Works, and Baiba Skride plays Bartók

Marc Minkowski’s recording of Jacques Offenbach’s La Périchole pays the composer a handsome tribute in his birthday year; violinist Baiba Skride’s new all-Bartók disc is one of the year’s best.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aaron Jay Kernis, Baiba Skride, Bru Zane, La Périchole, Marc Minkowski, Naxos, Orfeo

Opera Album Review: Offenbach’s “La Périchole,” by an All-French Cast, Combines Zest and Elegance

This is one of the zippiest, most life-affirming opera recordings I have heard in a long time. Well, this puts it a bit too blandly, because the work’s social satire also targets the smug self-satisfaction and careless cruelty of the powerful.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Bru Zane, Center for French Romantic Music, Jacques-Offenbach, La Périchole, Marc Minkowsk, Ralph P. Locke

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