The Lamplighters' new, live recording of Princess Ida preserves the original animation and energy of the production, enhancing memories of seeing the performance in person.
An Ariadne auf Naxos DVD featuring a dream conductor/cast combo — glorious, steady, and soaring Straussian conducting, and the best vocal artistry of our era — is one that belongs in every opera lover's collection.
The first day of the Carmel Bach Festival offers plenty of attractions, including an insightful master class, imitation-gut strings, and chats with some of the performers.
In San Francisco, that hotbed of world-class guitar performances, a new series is born; Mobius Trio and The Living Earth Show were featured in the wide-ranging inaugural concert.
With a nod to Bach, the thematic link behind this season’s Music@Menlo Festival, Christopher Froh and friends took an audience on an exhilarating tour of percussive possibilities.
Piazzolla, de Falla, even Paganini all sing out in a sweet violin-plus-guitar CD, Histoire du Tango, by the terrific Augustin Hadelich and Pablo Sáinz Villegas.
