album reviews

The title “Jascha Heifetz: The Supreme” of Arkiv’s two-disc Artists of the Century collection, which ranges from Bach to Tchaikovsky to Gershwin, is absolutely accurate: Jascha Heifetz is often regarded ...

Kristin Chenoweth is a star of Broadway (a Tony winner for “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” and ...

Featuring conductor Adrian Butterfield and the London Handel Orchestra, a new Onyx Classics album showcases two of Handel’s ...

The centenary of the Armistice has inevitably called forth musical responses, and the centenary of Hubert Parry's death ...

“Into the Fire” (on Erato) is a live recording of a memorable concert of art songs at London’s ...

The best of new albums recently released by classical singers is Thomas Hampson’s “Songs from Chicago,” on Cedille ...

Last year, bass-baritone Bryn Terfel had to cancel a number of performances for health reasons. The good news ...

Soprano Renée Fleming recently made a successful transition to Broadway, receiving a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress ...

The delightful new release "Vivaldi: Concerti da Camera" from the French label Calliope presents us with a disc of ...

Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956 in Oceanside, NY) has long been recognized as one of America’s leading composers ...

Gordon Getty (b. 1933) is a distinguished composer of songs and operas inspired by poetry. “Beauty Come Dancing” ...

This album is the fifth in Deutsche Grammophon's project to record the major Mozart operas with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Chamber Orchestra ...

From the opening notes of soprano Nadine Sierra’s stunning debut album, “There’s a Place for Us” (on Deutsche ...

This latest disc from The Marian Consort and director Rory McCleery (on Delphian), “In Sorrow's Footsteps,” compares and contrasts old and modern ...

The tributes continue to pour in to honor the late Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson (1918–2005) on her 100th ...

The Austrian-German symphonic canon goes something like this: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bruckner, and Mahler. ...

Francesco Gasparini (1661–1727) is not a household name—yet—though we are already discovering what a big influence he had ...

An illuminating glimpse at the music Mozart heard in London during his visit in 1764–65, the two-disc set ...

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the groundbreaking musical “Oklahoma!” Verve Records/UMe has released a deluxe, remastered edition ...

Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012) was born in New York City and at age 7 became the youngest student to ...

It sometimes seems as if London might have a finite pool of professional singers, with familiar faces cropping ...

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) may have lived in obscurity, but her poems have inspired a number of classical composers. ...

The new release “Winter Journey” from Signum Classics follows from the performances at the Ryedale Festival and Wigmore Hall of Jeremy Sams's translation ...

In these tense times, one safe way to unwind is to listen to the soothing sounds of chamber ...

The only thing better than one new opera recording by opera star Joyce DiDonato is two, and both ...

In 1952, jazz producer Norman Granz came up with the idea of recording Fred Astaire with a top-flight ...

Handel's masterpiece “Ottone” benefits from a stellar performance on a three-CD set from Decca.