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I have had almost nothing but praise for Robert Spano’s Telarc recordings to date, so this dull performance of Berlioz’s Requiem, never an easy work
Michael Tilson Thomas’ Symphonie fantastique remains the finest version to appear in recent memory, and its reissue at mid-price should induce any who hesitated the
To work backwards, taking the bonus material first, we are presented with the type of recital that tenors simply don’t give anymore (date and place
Because these performances are relatively well known, I will limit myself to discussion of these new SACD incarnations. They are terrible. Abravanel’s Mahler recordings never
The rag-tag pickup ensemble optimistically named The London Classical Players catapulted Roger Norrington to fame, aided in no small degree by the pandering lip-service of
This new recording, released several months ago in Europe to mixed reviews, would have been more desirable had Roger Norrington’s excellent new version of the
Summing up this performance in a nutshell (for the whole shebang, type Q7072 in Search Reviews), it gets better as it goes and closes with
Born in 1863, Felix Weingartner succeeded Mahler as head of the Vienna State Opera and enjoyed a three-decade-long relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic in addition
Pierre Boulez’s Roméo et Juliette is brilliantly played by the Cleveland Orchestra and conducted with a transparency that allows details to emerge clearly, even in
A spoken narration? A chamber ensemble? Two singers? Only 64 minutes long? What’s going on here? Well, the fact is, this is an alternately compelling
