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Naxos

Opera Album Review: A Marvelous New Recording of Rossini’s “The Silken Ladder”– at a Bargain Price

Rossini’s one-act opera from 1812 rings fresh changes on a host of comic-opera clichés.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: José Miguel Pérez-Sierra, Kraków Philharmonic, La scala di Seta, Naxos, opera buffa, Ralph P. Locke, The Silken Ladder

Opera Album Review: Meyerbeer’s Comic Opera about Peter the Great, A Welcome Return

This re-release of a superb recording of a major Meyerbeer opera reminds us what treasures are available to opera companies (and college opera programs) willing to step beyond the well-trodden path.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Giacomo Meyerbeer, L’Étoile du nord, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Naxos, Ralph P. Locke, Wexford Festival Opera Chorus

Classical Album Review: Composer Derek Bermel’s “Intonations” — Turning Acerbity and Complexity on Their Heads

For Derek Bermel fans, Intonations is a must. For new music enthusiasts and the otherwise curious – ditto.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Derek Bermel, Intonations, JACK Quartet, Naxos

July Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: A Good Dignified Life: The Political advice of Hannah Arendt & Rosa Luxemburg, Big Wave Guardians, I'll Show You Mine, Kai Maristead, M. Night Shyamalan, Meet Me by the Fountain An Inside History of the Mall, Naxos, Old, Over/Under, Sarah Osman, Sasha Ray, Sophia Silver, Tim Jackson, Wlliam Grant Still

Opera Album Review: Donizetti’s Teacher Reveals His Own Operatic Mastery in a World-Premiere Recording of “Elena”

This first-rate performance highlights the special attractions of the “half-serious” operatic genre.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Elena, Giovanni Simone Mayr, Naxos

Opera Album Review: The Great Polish National Opera “Halka” Gets a Spirited and Shapely New Recording

Halka struts its stuff, impressively, in this new recording with an all-Polish cast conducted by internationally renowned Gabriel Chmura.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Gabriel Chmura., Magdalena Molendowska, Naxos, Poznań Opera, Ralph Locke, Stanislaw Moniuszko

Classical Album Review: Composer Joan Tower’s “Strike Zones”

For Joan Tower fans, this disc is a must; for the Tower-curious, it offers an excellent introduction to the composer’s wider work, all of it compellingly played.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller, Joan Tower, Jonathan Blumhofer, Naxos

Opera Album Review: A Rossini “Semi-Serious” Opera That Works Like a Charm

This new recording would be a great, and inexpensive, way to enter the sound world of Rossini’s mature operas.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Gioachino Rossini, Gorecki Chamber Choir, Matilde di Shabran, Naxos

Opera CD Review: Congolese Tenor Patrick Cabongo Steps into Stardom in a World-Premiere Recording of Meyerbeer’s “Romilda e Costanza”

The composer of Les huguenots and L’Africaine was already an accomplished master at age 26, as this first-rate recording reveals.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Giacomo Meyerbeer, Luciano Acocella, Naxos, Patrick Cabongo, Ralph P. Locke, Romilda e Costanza, The Górecki Chamber Choir

Classical CD Review: A Simon Mayr Comic Opera That’s Really Funny — and Performed with Flair

At this point in his career, Mayr is contributing to the development of the musicodramatic conventions that would set the stage for the masterpieces of Donizetti, Bellini, and Verdi.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Franz Hauk, Johann Simon (Giovanni Simone) Mayr, Le due duchesse, Naxos, Ralph P. Locke

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