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Pierre Boulez may be the only conductor alive at present to have recorded Mahler’s Das klagende Lied twice, first for Sony in the premiere recording
Thirteen discs of this stuff is torture–27 works that graphically To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.
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Boulez’s CBS legacy contains some remarkable work, from the perverse To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.
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It’s amazing how little Boulez has to offer in this To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription
Thirteen discs of this stuff is torture–27 works that graphically To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription
Yikes! Just as the Russian winter defeated Napoleon, so the To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription
Boulez’s CBS legacy contains some remarkable work, from the perverse To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription
This live Ravel program from the glory days of the […]
Pierre Boulez remade most of this music for Deutsche Grammophon, […]
Pierre Boulez may be the only conductor alive at present to have recorded Mahler’s Das klagende Lied twice, first for Sony in the premiere recording
Why is it that so much of this music is neglected today? It’s lively, tuneful, immaculately crafted, fabulously scored (naturally), and it would grace any
Wow! Move over Stokowski! Kees Bakels and his Malaysian players go nuts in the last two minutes of the Russian Easter Overture, cutting the tempo
This is a gorgeous Scheherazade. Not surprisingly, given the fact that this is Beecham’s orchestra a half-dozen years after the great Englishman’s death, the performance
Aside from Scheherazade and a few orchestral showpieces, most of Rimsky-Korsakov’s works are unknown territory for Western music lovers. This well-played program featuring a pair
The spongy, string-dominated opening of this Scheherazade is an immediate turn-off. What happened to the accents? Where are the trombones? (I’ll tell you where: they’re
Random Reviews of BOOKS on Music: Strauss Ballets, Wagner in Performance, Cavaillé-Coll Organs
Here's an eclectic assortment of books on everything from Richard Strauss' rarely heard ballets, to essays on historical Wagner performance and an exhaustive stop-list of several hundred organs built by the legendary 19th-century French master Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.
The Five Greatest Dvořák Conductors
The Five Greatest Dvořák Conductors
Witold Rowicki
Václav Neumann
Rafael Kubelik
István Kertész
Charles Mackerras
Honegger (4) & Homilius (Random Reviews from the Overflow Room)
We conclude our Honegger survey, and continue moving (backwards) through the alphabet to a notable, yet little-known, German pre-classical composer of sacred vocal music.
Random Reviews of BOOKS on Music: Richard Strauss, Hindemith on Hindemith, Scary Child Psych
If you're looking for a good Richard Strauss biography, Michael Kennedy's book might be just the ticket. Also, Hindemith's "A Composer's World" makes fascinating reading today. Finally, a mid-19th century book on children's religious indoctrination makes for terrifying reading today.
The Five Worst Beethoven Conductors
The Five Worst Beethoven Conductors
Roy Goodman
Sergiu Celibidache
Kurt Masur
Hans Knappertsbusch
Mikhail Pletnev
Honegger! (Random Reviews from the Overflow Room 3)
The parade of fascinating, virtually unknown musical gems continues...
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
