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Johann Rufinatscha (1812-93) is best known as an FOB (Friend of Brahms). This does not make him a good composer. Competent, certainly, but memorable? Certainly
What pushes this release over the top is the brilliant fiddling of James Ehnes, combined with the incredibly intelligent idea of putting all of Bartók’s
It’s good to hear Bavouzet venturing outside the French repertoire; his playing here is marvelous. Certainly he has the chops for the percussive writing in
These are very well-recorded performances of very problematic music–but then, we all know that (about the music, I mean). Suffice it to say that Hungaria
Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic finally get their collective act together for this splendid CD of Alfredo Casella’s virtually unknown Second Symphony (1910). The
Alfredo Casella made the giant leap from swollen, hyper-Romantic large orchestral works to the pared-down textures of neo-classicism in vogue in the 1920s. Conductor Gianandrea
It’s sad not to be able to give a more enthusiastic welcome to this professional but utterly irrelevant and unnecessary disc. Noseda directs a sensible,
Cheerless, philosophically dark, and devoid of hummable tunes (despite using Leitmotifs), Rachmaninov’s early The Miserly Knight (based on a story by that merrymaker, Pushkin) nonetheless
Gianandrea Noseda does a good job with the Dante Symphony’s first movement (the only part anyone cares about). He whips up the opening storm excitingly,
How do you blow a Wolf-Ferrari program? Even Neville Marriner, not exactly Mr. Personality on the podium, delivered fine performances of this largely unassuming, colorful,
