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These performances, captured shortly before Sinopoli’s untimely death, make a fine memento of his art. His commercial recording of Mahler’s Ninth was a decadent mess:
This 1992 Das Klagende Lied is one of the better items from Giuseppe Sinopoli’s uneven Mahler cycle. Recorded live, the performance has a winning spontaneity
This Trovatore is exciting, well-sung, interestingly led, faithful to the score, and involving; what it isn’t, is Italianate. No matter how hard the late Giuseppe
A set easily dispensed with: Sinopoli delivers fine performances of Symphonies 2, 3, and 5, and an exceptionally good Das Lied von der Erde (with
This isn’t a completely successful Bruckner Fifth, but it is an interesting one. The biggest problems occur in the first movement, where Sinopoli executes what
Richard Strauss’ The Legend of Joseph was composed in 1912 on a commission from Diaghalev’s Ballet Russe to a scenario by Hugo von Hofmansthal recounting
The Staatskapelle Dresden is an orchestra with a long Brucknerian tradition, as some wonderful recordings made with Eugen Jochum for EMI testify. But Sinopoli is
Although the composer himself probably would have denied it strenuously, this music really is great fun. The poetry in “Pierrot Lunaire” is simply the last
Sinopoli is himself a composer whose style often recalls that of Alban Berg, so it’s no surprise that he turns in a very personal, but
