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Carnegie Hall, New York; March 1, 2010 Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra brought the house down last evening. On paper the program did not
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Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal; November 14, 2009 There’s something curiously appealing about the idea of hearing a program of orchestral favorites transcribed for six
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Carnegie Hall, New York; May 17, 2009 Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Dresden brought Carnegie Hall’s Mahler cycle to a close with a Ninth Symphony
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Carnegie Hall, New York; May 16, 2009 The chronological sequence of Mahler’s symphonies being presented by the Staatskapelle Berlin took a brief pause this evening,
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Carnegie Hall, New York; May 7, 2008 Everyone knows that Mahler’s Eighth Symphony can be played by much fewer than the 1000 performers of its
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Henry Louis de la Grange (Oxford) April, 2008 Henry-Louis de la Grange’s fourth and final volume in his epic Mahler biography takes a firm, even
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If you’ve been a regular visitor to ClassicsToday.com, you will see that we have been gradually working our way through the entire Eloquence label, a
CRUMB PREMIERE ALMOST TURNS STUNT INTO CONCERT
Miller Theater, Columbia University, New York; November 14, 2002 Concert promoters today, despairing of the traditional piano recital, are going whole hog for “concept” programs
CRAFT ON CRAFT: A TIMELY MEMOIR OF A REMARKABLE ARTIST
An Improbable Life: Memoirs by Robert Craft (Vanderbilt University Press) It’s about time that Robert Craft spent some time explaining how he came to be
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Carnegie Hall, New York: October 10, 2002 Let’s get right the point: there was a lot to enjoy in Michael Tilson Thomas’ Mahler Third, and