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Despite its reputation as a stable for opera's cavalry, the Metropolitan Opera does, of course, produce works that are new or outside the standard repertory. The results are uneven. This season has already seen an unfortunate production of Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice, an attenuated musical rumination exquisitely ill-suited to a house of the Met's proportions. Last week the company used its resources to far better effect. It revived Czech Composer Leos Janáček's Jenufa, last heard at the Met 50 years ago in a production starring Maria Jeritza...
...destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano," Rostropovich has said. "But this cannot be until there are more and great new works for the cello." Thus he has inspired composers such as Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Miaskovsky, Kabalevsky, Piston and Britten to write repeatedly...
Oboe quartets of Mozart, Britten, Arnold (Particia Morehead, oboe); Bartok violin duets. Free. Saturday, March...
...appealing, his orchestrations so skillful, that Rachmaninoff's music simply will not go away, despite the condescension of academia and the critics. He may not have written music "of his own time" (assuming serialism and atonality to be the proper fashion), but then neither does Benjamin Britten nor Dmitri Shostakovich. Nor, in other eras, did Edward Elgar or Bach worry about being in vogue...
PURCELL: THE FAIRY QUEEN (London, 2 LPs). One good English composer deserves another, or so it seems from this triumph by Benjamin Britten...