Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
This, Rimsky’s last opera, is a caustic satire of military and royal stupidity and incompetence. The Russo-Japanese War had ended badly for the Russians in
These performances don’t show Kondrashin at his absolute best, but even so there’s a lot to enjoy. God knows, the Franck is light-years better than
Gerard Schwarz and his Seattle forces turn in an absolutely terrific Sheherazade: voluptuous, exotic, with a nice flexibility of pulse, but also very exciting. You
Charles Dutoit made some of his first recordings with the Royal Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon, so this disc represents a reunion of sorts. It’s not
Before radio and recordings came along it was more-or-less standard practice to make orchestral works available in four-hand piano arrangements for home use. Publishing companies
What’s not to like? The music is gorgeously tuneful and atmospheric, the orchestration amazing, the playing excellent, the sonics vibrant. Pletnev’s crisp briskness works quite
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
Eugene Ormandy’s disc of Nutcracker excerpts, including the entire “suite” plus a good bit of additional music (Act 1’s journey through the snow and Waltz
This is one of the more interesting programs in Deutsche Grammophon’s New York Philharmonic live concert series. Lorin Maazel plays Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture as
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
