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Igor Levit is one of the few pianists around (perhaps the only one) whose provocative thematic program concepts yield equally stimulating and substantial musical results.
Like many orchestras, the Cleveland is issuing its own recordings, albeit somewhat belatedly as compared to the orchestras in San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, or several
When the Cleveland Orchestra performed Dvořák’s Rusalka at the Salzburg Festival in 2008, the reception was rapturous. “That’s how an orchestra should play opera!” was
One might speculate as to why this 2008 performance of Carmen from Zurich has just been released, but frankly, it is not quite worth the
Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony is many things: huge, glitzy, tuneful,
Here’s a no-brainer–the best recording of Erich Korngold’s wonderful Symphony in F-sharp, and not just because of the classy playing of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which
This new (summer of 2009) Cosi from the Zurich Opera house has a great deal of charm, it looks and sounds good, and it pulls
First things first. Make sure to turn up the volume when playing this low-level live recording, lest you get the impression that nothing’s going on
This is what happens when a “concept album” goes wrong. The somewhat desperate full title of this collection is “Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn 2010: Moon,
The first thing you notice about this performance is the mellow approach to the orchestra taken by conductor Franz Welser-Möst. From the start, the orchestra
