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Alfredo Casella composed his Concerto for Orchestra in 1937 for the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and Willem Mengelberg. At the time, there were very few
These are, by and large, excellent performances, very well played and conducted. My colleague, Jens Laurson, described Noseda’s recording of Symphony No. 8 as “middle-of-the-road,”
Snidely put, Gianandrea Noseda only conducts Italian and Russian works. (He’s musically and linguistically fluent in Russian after having lived and worked in St. Petersburg
This is the kind of performance that tries your patience. Why can’t Noseda play the first movement of this symphony up to tempo? The whole
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is such a good pianist that anything he
How is it that we live in a world where the record industry complains constantly that nothing sells, that the market for classical music is
The dry acoustic of the Barbican Center suits this work,
I think Anna Netrebko is by now review-proof, and possibly criticism proof: even her warm relationship with and support for Vladimir Putin, despite his attitude
These performances are what my French colleague Christophe Huss would call “correct”. Nothing goes wrong, all the notes are in place, and the performances are
These pieces from Luigi Dallapiccola’s prime have a glittering, caressing beauty that masks an extraordinary musical mind. Dallapiccola (1904-75) arguably was the most remarkable of
