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Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony seems to be a tough work to pull off, and it’s a credit to Andrew Litton and his team that they do
Andrew Litton’s first series of Rachmaninov recordings, for Virgin, was excellent; there’s no doubt that he has a real feel for this music. That affinity
The opening of the Concerto in F had me more than a little concerned: those extra rim-shots on the snare drum, the spotlit clarinet trills—and
For background and plot of this opera, composed in 1940, given a private performance in ’42 but never performed during the composer’s lifetime, please refer
In a previous review (well, several) I mentioned the fact that a lot of basic repertoire is being recorded merely to take advantage of SACD
Vadim Gluzman must be one of the two or three finest violinists currently active, and we can only hope he stays loyal to BIS and
These are fabulous performances, the coupling is more than generous (a full 80 minutes of music), and the concertos are so different from Toradze/Gergiev that
Marc-André Hamelin is to the piano what Heifetz was to the violin: an artist of such technical accomplishment that many writers have characterized him as
How well I remember attending Sweeney Todd, not long after Stephen Sondheim’s musical thriller opened in the spring of 1979. I was familiar with Sondheim’s
