Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
These performances, originally recorded in 1988/89, are interesting more for […]
The only complaint one can register about these Seattle Symphony
This exciting disc makes a very welcome return to the catalog on Naxos. The Respighi transcriptions reveal his typical mastery of orchestration, particularly in the
These are speedy, rhythmic performances of two of Aaron Copland’s three most famous ballets, and it’s actually a good idea to replace the usual Appalachian
Here is yet another brilliant, glittering collection of Rimsky-Korsakov orchestral music, made all the more appealing by the intelligently planned program. The two biggest, most
If you’re looking for a stellar disc containing all three Borodin symphonies in top-notch sound (the Third left incomplete, its two movements orchestrated by Glazunov),
Gerard Schwarz and his Seattle forces turn in an absolutely terrific Sheherazade: voluptuous, exotic, with a nice flexibility of pulse, but also very exciting. You
Gerard Schwarz certainly has command of the grayer aspects of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8. After an imposing introduction (with commanding playing by the Seattle strings),
There are more impressive versions of some of these symphonies–Bernstein in No. 3, Slatkin in No. 10–but these performances maintain a very high standard throughout.
This is a very fine live performance of Mahler’s Fourth. Gerard Schwarz has many ideas about the music, and they work very well. Consider, for
