Mozart: Arias for Male Soprano (from Idomeneo, Lucio Silla and La Clemenza di Tito); Motet, Exsultate, Jubilate, K. 165. Michael Maniaci, soprano; with Boston Baroque directed by Martin Pearlman.

It’s a bit startling to realize that Jean Sibelius has been dead for only 50 years, for he is a figure who seems like part of a deeper past. To put it in stark perspective, he was born in the year ...

For half his life Composer Jean Sibelius has been treated like a national hero in his native Finland. The Finnish Government has long subsidized him so that he could give all his time to writing music ...

Columbia’s most recent operatic album set (No. 8) is a breezily appropriate item for warm weather: “The Barber of Seville.” When “The Barber” is performed with a touch of frivolity, it becomes perhaps ...