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Editorial (83)
Dirty Words That Tell the Truth About TV
Norman Lebrecht on Jerry Springer - The Opera
Evening Standard [London] - 8 January 2005
It Seems They've Forgotten Something at Wales Millennium Centre (And Other New Halls, Too)
The Independent [London] - 4 December 2004
Considering New Approaches to Classical Music Criticism
St. Petersburg Times [Florida] - 14 November 2004
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Interview (182)
A Tenor on the Psychoanalyst's Couch - Rolando Villazón
International Herald Tribune / New York Times - 26 January 2005
A True Artist and a True Showman - Maxim Vengerov
The Independent [London] - 22 January 2005
Impresario Raymond Gubbay on His Ill-Fated Savoy Opera Company
The Independent [London] - 24 January 2005
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News (4135)
Carnegie Hall's 2005-06 Season to Feature Festivals of Mozart, Meredith Monk and John Adams (Plus Lots of Terrific Orchestras)
Associated Press - 2 February 2005
BBC Symphony Orchestra Appoints Jirí Belohlávek Chief Conductor
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) - 2 February 2005
Composer Henri Dutilleux Wins Siemens Music Prize
Agence France-Presse - 1 February 2005
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News in depth (39)
After Years of Hanging Up the 'Sold Out' Sign, Dallas Symphony Raises Its Marketing Volume
Dallas Morning News - 10 November 2003
Anyone Can Commission a New Piece of Music -- A New Guide Tells How
Philadelphia Inquirer - 27 October 2003
Los Angeles Hopes That Walt Disney Hall Project May Give the City a Real Urban Center
International Herald Tribune / New York Times - 23 October 2003
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Concert Review (1418)
A Radical Magic Flute Staged by La Fura dels Baus at the Paris Opéra
International Herald Tribune / New York Times - 28 January 2005
'Headlong Charge' - Mark-Anthony Turnage's Schizoid
Evening Standard [London] - 27 January 2005
Riccardo Muti Conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Its 60th Birthday Gala
Evening Standard [London] - 28 January 2005
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andante Reviews (443)
Should They Remain Obscure? Two Symphonies by Famed Musicologist Egon Wellesz
Birmingham Post - 22 January 2005
A Genuine Blast from the Past - 'Music for Alfonso the Wise'
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - 18 January 2005
Miklós Perényi and András Schiff Play Beethoven Cello Sonatas
Dallas Morning News - 18 January 2005
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letters to andante magazine (13)
Massenet in Chicago
A reader responds to "Massenet's Thaïs - Melo- Without the Drama."
Major Appliances in the Concert Hall
A reader responds to "On Sewing Machines and Self-Expression: Mapping the Future in Sound."
Radical Stagings, Basic Emotions
A reader responds to "The Age of the Director (V)."
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Essay (129)
Music That Finds Its Way Into Nietzsche - Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra
Kansas City Star - 23 January 2005
They Called Her 'Smiley' - Remembering Jacqueline du Pré on Her 60th Birthday
The Independent [London] - 7 January 2005
Opera's Blessed Madonna - Remembering Renata Tebaldi
Philadelphia Inquirer - 21 December 2004
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book reviews (13)
Frank, Elegant and Not at All Gossipy -- Renée Fleming's The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
Cox News Service - 9 January 2005
Erudite, Persuasive and Highly Subjective: Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - 19 December 2004
Champagne Connoisseur, Dapper Dandy, Bodice Ripper -- Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans
The Independent on Sunday [London] - 5 December 2004
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IRR (276)
The Byrd Edition Volume 6
Music for Holy Week and Easter from the Gradualia.
The Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood (dir.); Patrick Russill (organ).
Rachmaninov The Bells, Op. 35
Taneyev: John of Damascus, Op. 1.
Marina Mescheriakova (soprano); Sergei Larin (tenor); Vladimir Chernov (baritone); Moscow State Chamber Choir; Russian National Orchestra/Mikhail Pletnev.
"O Sweet Love"
Byrd: "Ye sacred Muses," "Fortune," "Blame I confess" and more.
Dowland: "A Fancy," "Shall I strive with words to move?", "Go from my window" and more.
Daniel Taylor (countertenor); Les Voix Humaines; Stephen Stubbs (lute).
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Turok's Choice (16)
Turok's Choice - June 2001
Great Bach organ music, powerful Mahler 8, Chausson's complete songs, pleasant Verdi "Falstaff," distinguished Mahler 5.
Turok's Choice - May 2001
Gripping Mahler "Das Lied" from Boulez, hectic Verdi "Requiem" from Gergiev, Mozart's rare "Il Sogno di Scipione," fluent Schumann from the Eroica Quartet and from pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin.
Turok's Choice - April 2001
Intriguing Verdi choruses, Bartoli disappoints in Vivaldi, Celibidache scores in varied repertory, William Fry becomes more than a name.
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