Mozart/ Stader/ Munich Bach Choir & Orchestra - RequiemWell known for spearheading a general revival of interest in, and modernizing the performance practices of Baroque music, especially Bach, after WWII, Karl Richter (1926 81) also conducted works by composers other than Bach, including Handel and Mozart. Heard here conducting the choral and orchestral forces he founded in mid 20th c., the Munchener Bach Chor and Munchener Bach Orchester, this performance of Mozart's Requiem, KV626 features a stellar

and this time he places the plot in Count Almaviva's summer residence - a place where the count spent his childhood

issued on Brilliant Classics

These are superb performances by the Spanish vocal ensemble Amystis

All tracks on the new album were composed by Liv's long-time friend Tommy Olsson (Theatre of Tragedy

but in 1825

this suspense-soaked noir stars Colleen Miller (Playgirl

When Amos becomes a popular college student and athlete

Der Freischütz marks a starting point as one of the first - if not the first - great German Romantic operas

For eight years

the pieces embroidered by Her Wild Love find their own balance

who's music of the 1940s and early 1950s already sounded like Elvis at Sun

he made his first records for RCA in Montreal