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The Bottom Line: This new Beethoven concerto cycle on Alpha looks like it’s going to be one of the major events of the Beethoven year.
Have today’s conductors and orchestras forgotten how to play loudly? I sometimes wonder. Perhaps Manze’s baroque bona fides hamper him in more opulently scored music;
Larsson composed his Third Symphony in 1944-5, but you’d think it was written 75 years earlier. It has absolutely nothing interesting or distinctive to recommend
Andrew Manze’s lite-touch manner works better in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 5, where he successfully conveys the music’s pastoral and elegiac modes, especially in
This second release in Manze’s ongoing Vaughan Williams cycle, containing A Pastoral Symphony and Symphony No. 4, isn’t quite as good as its predecessor. It
Lars-Erik Larsson composed three symphonies, all of which he eventually
A year following his piano debut in Brahms’ Piano Concerto
Johan Helmich Roman’s Drottningholmsmusiken consists of 24 numbers (and one
I was wondering when someone would get around to a
The notes for this release contain the usual apologia from the conductor regarding the thorny issue of performance practice. This is a pity, for several
