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If you’ve heard Nelly Akopian-Tamarina’s self-indulgent Schumann and glacially slow Brahms recordings, you’ll know what to expect from these 2008/09 live Wigmore Hall performances. In
Interest in conductor Kirill Petrenko has naturally increased since the announcement that he would be taking over from Simon Rattle as music director of the
In these days of big boxes, DG really ought to
There is absolutely nothing above the ordinary here. Thierry Fischer’s choice of the original version of Petrushka could have been interesting, but the crowd scenes
Telarc’s new Russian orchestral works collection offers the usual serving of the standard repertoire but also spices up the collection with such items as Liadov’s
Suk’s A Summer’s Tale (as it’s translated here) is one of the most masterful and beautiful of all large late-Romantic orchestral works. Mahler had planned
Olga Kern has the fingers of steel, huge sound, and lyrical instincts to put over late-Romantic Russian repertoire the way it should be heard. What’s
It’s good to have a new, well-played and -recorded collection of music by this most lazy of composers, best known as the guy whose inaction
Sony Masterworks’ new “Expanded Edition” offers well-known recordings newly remastered using DSD technology, along with “bonus” material extending the playing time of the original LP
Collectors seeking a budget introduction to the orchestral music of Anatol Liadov might find this inviting, but congested sound and low-grade playing are serious deterrents.
