In Howard’s hands, the Allegro con brio section in Act 1’s opening number conveys more of the music’s opera buffa character than in Katsaris’s scaled-down reading. While Katsaris clips the F major ...

Beethoven's Eroica Variations technically should be called the Prometheus Variations, because he took the tune from his ballet, The Creatures of Prometheus. Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa plays ...