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Capriccio

Classical Album Review: Commedia dell’arte Clowns in a World of Heartbreak

Dohnányi and Schnitzler’s “pantomime” The Veil of Pierrette receives its first, and resplendent, recording.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Dance, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Arthur Schnitzler, Capriccio, Ernst von Dohnányi, Ralph P. Locke, The Veil of Pierrette

Classical CD Reviews: Luciano Berio’s Coro, Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass,” and Shostakovich’s “Babi Yar”

The relative infrequency of big Berio releases makes new recordings of his major works into significant, contemporary music events; Dennis Russell Davies’ new recording of Bernstein’s Mass is done in by lax vocals and a paucity of emotional consistency; Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra supply a great Shostakovich Thirteenth Symphony.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Bis, Capriccio, CSO Resound, Dennis Russell Davies, Riccardo Muti

Opera Album Review: The Most Neglected Master of Opera? Carl Maria von Weber, Early and Late

New recordings of Peter Schmoll and His Neighbors and of Euryanthe pose an embarrassing question: why is the opera repertory so narrow?

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Capriccio, Carl Maria von Weber, Euryanthe, Peter Schmoll and His Neighbors

Opera Album Review: Oscar Wilde in the Opera House, Part 1 — Zemlinsky’s Intense Setting of “A Florentine Tragedy”

Salome is not the only strong opera based on an Oscar Wilde play. This one-acter by Zemlinsky deserves a place in the repertoire today.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Preview Tagged: A Florentine Tragedy, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Bertrand de Billy, Capriccio

Classical CD Reviews: Florence Price’s Symphonies nos. 1 & 4, George Antheil’s Symphonies nos. 3 & 6, and 20th-century Russian Orchestral Music

Fine recordings of symphonies by neglected American composers Florence Price and George Antheil; and a curious album from Cornelius Meister and the ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Capriccio, Chandos, Cornelius Meister, Florence Price, George Antheil, Naxos, ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien

Classical CD Reviews: Sir Neville Marriner — The London Recordings, Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, James MacMillan String Quartets

A winning reminder of Sir Neville Marriner’s impressive stylistic range as a conductor, a fine recording of a much-loved and -played Richard Strauss tone poem, and a striking, powerful presentation of the string quartets of James MacMillan.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Capriccio, Ein Heldenleben, Hyperion, James MacMillan String Quartets, Pentatone, Richard Strauss, Sir Neville Marriner: The London Recordings

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