
Eduardo Mata really had a flair for French music, and […]
Is there a well-known classical music masterpiece that hasn’t been arranged, deconstructed, abridged, mangled, parodied, jazz-arranged, or pop songed? Think “What’s Opera, Doc?” or “The
Eduardo Mata leads a virile performance of Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky cantata, wherein the Dallas Symphony’s bold and occasionally brash playing commands your attention–especially so in
For all that’s made of The Rite of Spring’s extraordinary rhythmic component, there’s a sophisticated harmonic dimension as well, something easily discerned in Eduardo Mata’s
This is without doubt one of the finest collections of Latin American classical music in the catalog. All of the music is great, offering a
This “on demand” reissue from Arkivmusic.com offers bright and bubbly performances of an odd but curiously apt coupling. Both works are neoclassical in style as
Eduardo Mata was a wonderful conductor in colorful, late-Romantic repertoire. His Ravel cycle (excepting Daphnis) and Pictures at an Exhibition for RCA were wonderful, and
Dorian made some of its best recordings, both technically and artistically, in Venezuela, and this performance of Antonio Estévez’s Cantata Criolla got the ball rolling.
This fine collection contains excellent performances of all three works–the Bernstein and Copland brashly idiomatic and full of life, and the Harris a very welcome
These recordings (formerly on the Dorian label) are very good if not the best available for the Falla selections. Marta Senn is a fine soprano