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There are times when you can tell a performance will […]
It’s good to see the Boston Symphony and its new Music Director working on a big project for a major label, like this new Shostakovich
Dvorák’s Piano Concerto still suffers from a lack of compelling
Is the finale of Manfred the silliest piece written in the entire 19th century? Is this really what a seamy orgy sounds like? I mean
This first release on the Boston Symphony’s own label, featuring the orchestra’s new music director Andris Nelsons, sounds very promising, especially given the fact that
Hélène Grimaud claims to have a special affinity for Brahms,
Andris Nelsons led a sensational Lohengrin last summer at Bayreuth and has made some spectacular recordings of symphonic works. His wife, Kristine Opolais, received an
When this Franco Zeffirelli production of Turandot was new in 1987 it caused great consternation, admiration, laughter, and headaches. Never, even at the Met in
Like Claudio Arrau, Daniel Barenboim seems to play Chopin’s concertos as if they had been composed by Brahms. You get outsized dynamics, emphatic accents, overly
I feel somewhat guilty about not liking this performance, and I cannot figure out why Covent Garden would have bothered to immortalize it on video.
