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For decades now I’ve been listening to independent labels like BIS, who often do wonderful work, complain about the problems of producing and selling classical
This is Bernstein without soul: neat, clean, but ultimately rather sterile. Granted, “soul” is a quality that’s difficult to quantify, but it certainly can be
We didn’t really need this release. BIS has perfectly fine versions of these two symphonies already. Indeed, the Seventh, conducted by Leif Segerstam, is a
Who ever knew that music could capture such a wide
Allan Pettersson’s Ninth Symphony lasts 70 brutal, continuous minutes. The
Slowly and steadily, BIS continues its advocacy of the works
The performances here are uniformly excellent, though whether or not
Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Serenade probably is his orchestral masterpiece, although a good case can be made for the Second Symphony as well. It has been lucky
Milhaud’s La création du Monde used to be quite popular, at least on disc, but it seems to have vanished from the discography recently, at
Most discussions of Allan Pettersson’s music maintain that he only reaches the apogee of musical darkness and misery in his later symphonies, a reflection of
