Classical

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the home video "The Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the Century.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new recording of Mahler's Seventh Symphony by Pierre Boulez and the Cleveland Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon).

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz on his recent junket to Brazil.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews "Classics for Dummies" on CD-Rom on the EMI label.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a recent concert of Australian pianist David Helfgott. The film "Shine" was based on Helfgott's life.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the new Great Performances special on PBS (March 7, 9PM most stations), "Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall."

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews classic opera re-releases from the Sony Masterworks Heritage Vocal Series.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews "Chant d'amour," the new CD by mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. She's accompained by pianist Myung-Whun Chung.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a series of live recordings by the Budapest Quartet made at the Library of Congress in the early 1950s

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews "Sergio Fiorentino in Germany," a live recording from 1993, on the Appian Label. Fiorentino recently performed to the U.S. for the first time in forty years.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the new album "Duets and Arias" by married opera singers Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu.

The opera soprano and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees Barbara Hendricks has appeared on over fifty recordings and has won critical acclaim in performances with all the major opera companies in the world--but she remains a relatively obscure figure in the United States. This is her seventh year with the UN Commission and she says through her music, she has been able "to get people to listen in a way they wouldn't listen to a diplomat or bureaucrat."

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reflects on some of the performances he saw at this year's Lincoln Center Festival 96. It is a three week festival in New York City that celebrates the performing arts.

Fresh Air's classical music critic, Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new recording of Prokofiev violin music with violinist Gil Shaham. (Deutsche Grammophon)

Classical Music Critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the new two-cd set of a 1962 performance of the opera "Susannah." It features the legendary American soprano Phyllis Curtin. The cd set is available on the VAI label. Schwartz is Classical Music Editor of the Boston Phoenix.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the long awaited reissue of Virgil Thomson's "Four Saints in Three Acts," (RCA Victor)

Mezzo-Soprano Lorraine Hunt. She appeared in Peter Sellars' productions of Handel and Mozart. Hunt has been called the "reigning Handel diva of our day." Hunt's Handel recordings can be found on the Harmonia Mundi label. Her latest is "Handel: Ariodante."

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the latest recording by mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt: "Handel's Ariodante" on the Harmonia Mundi label.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new recording of live performances from the 1959 Salzburg Festival, including the late Erica Morini playing Mozart's Violin concerto No. 5, conducted by George Szell with the French National Radio and Television Orchestra. (on Sony)

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews Yo-Yo Ma's album "Concertos from the New World."