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Naxos’ Scarlatti cycle descends to the bottom of the proverbial barrel for Volume 30, one of this series’ outright duds. The close microphone placement and
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George Enescu graduated from the Vienna Conservatory at age 11, and in some respects his music fulfills our expectations of a child prodigy for whom
This disc contains one of Enescu’s first “official” works (as a prodigy he was writing symphonies in his early teens), the wonderfully evocative Romanian Poem,
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These are amazing performances. First, the coupling: so smart and […]
Tomás Netopil bills himself as a Janácek specialist, and maybe […]
We are past the point where a recording of Janácek […]
Can French orchestras still play French music? Not on evidence […]
Naxos’ Scarlatti cycle descends to the bottom of the proverbial barrel for Volume 30, one of this series’ outright duds. The close microphone placement and
George Enescu graduated from the Vienna Conservatory at age 11, and in some respects his music fulfills our expectations of a child prodigy for whom
This disc contains one of Enescu’s first “official” works (as a prodigy he was writing symphonies in his early teens), the wonderfully evocative Romanian Poem,
Violin virtuoso Kristin Lee serves up a delightful and stylistically wide-ranging cornucopia of American music, performed with unalloyed joy, style and effortless technique, abetted by
There is only one questionable moment on this well-filled disc of Janácek orchestral music: the string-led apotheosis in the last movement of Taras Bulba, right
Just why Vagn Holmboe’s 20 numbered string quartets remain closer to the repertoire’s fringes rather than towards the center core is a mystery, for they
Review: Minasi Mangles Mozart II--Symphonies 39-41
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39-41 "Jupiter". Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi (cond.) Harmonia Mundi
The Least IDEAL Brahms Cycle By Major Conductors
The Least IDEAL Brahms Cycle By Major Conductors
Symphony No. 1: Celibidache/Munich (Warner)
Symphony No. 2: Muti/Philadelphia (Decca)
Symphony No. 3: Bernstein/Vienna (DG)
Symphony No. 4: Sanderling/Berlin (Capriccio)
Mahler! (Random Reviews from the Overflow Room 3)
Reminiscing about Mahler recordings from days past is simply great fun, a reminder of a time when every new recordings was an event.
Music Chat: Interpretive Smut--Why the Fashion for Dirtying Up the Classics?
I'm fed up with the "rape and pillage" school of classical music interpretation, although I understand the pressure on performers to do something (anything) different, if only to stand out from the crowd. But what I don't get is listeners who enable the barbarism while simultaneously claiming to recognize and subscribe to all that is transcendent and sublime in "high" culture.
Cocaine Hippos: Minasi Massacres Mozart (1)
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 36 "Linz" and 38 "Prague". Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi (cond.) Harmonia Mundi
Mahler! (Random Reviews from the Overflow Room 2)
Some classics and some (relative) rarities--Mahler's discography has grown large enough that it's impossible to keep track of it all. Not that we don't try...
This year’s Tanglewood on Parade, a much-anticipated tradition that dates to 1940, will celebrate the life and legacy
April 24, 2024—GRAMMY®-winning production house PARMA Recordings announced today its acquisition of Albany Records. The classical label is
Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada—The Festival of the Sound is celebrating big this summer with an incredible line-up of
