The Wigmore Hall, which saw so many premieres of his works and where he made his professional debut in 1942, is honouring the ...

and House-debut, Gary Lehman, who earned the standing ovation he received for that feat, sharing it with the lady, Janice Baird, who jumped in to join him in mid-scene. It was not the greatest ...

Bononcini established his fame in the 1690s by composing more than 200 solo cantatas, which were frequently recopied and spread his fame abroad; 6 serenatas, each of which had 3 or 4 characters; the ...

Until now, however, the work of this important company has not been featured on a commercially produced recording. Now that the precedent has been set for audio recording, perhaps some of their ...

There is no greater name in lieder composition than that of Franz Schubert, and he desperately wanted to make a name for himself as a composer of opera as well. However, his operatic efforts met only ...

of ‘the Yellow Label’ have been central to the recording of Wagner’s ...

the creation of opera, an Italian invention. Primo Riccitelli, whose name is ...

Naxos’s DVD division has already released the performances on this disc of Virgil Thomson’s scores for The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River, as soundtracks for a re-release of the original ...

On his death, Seiler bequeathed Bruckner his Bˆsendorfer grand piano, which ...

This was said to make music sound more ëin the room.í Later, a similar control (sometimes called ëloudnessí), showed up on several amplifier units in my long parade of audio equipment, with the same ...

It was the fourth of Donizettiís operas to be performed during his life, and the first of Donizettiís to achieve any kind of performance history. It had at least seven stagings by 1827 , when its last ...