Lloyd Schwartz

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 a new CD of music composed by classic American songwriter Vincent Youmans and performed by William Bolcom and Joan Morris. It's called "Orchids in the Moonlight: Songs of Vincent Youmans."

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.

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)

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 two-disc set of historical recordings of the theater music of Kurt Weill: "From Berlin to Broadway," (Pearl Records)

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews Volume 1 of a series called "Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era" featuring pianist Pauline Alpert (Pearl label).