
Jesús López-Cobos leads sane, musicianly, attractive accounts of these two chestnuts. The symphony features very cultured playing from the orchestra’s wind soloists: the English horn
Georg Solti’s brash and barnstorming approach works well with Liszt’s sprawling Faust Symphony. The music’s bombast readily absorbs the Chicago Symphony’s blaring brass, here unleashed
Jésus López-Cobos’ Rachmaninov Second gets off to a less than promising start. Despite the beautifully resonant tone from Cincinnati’s low strings, the music suffers from
As usual with composers who became famous because of a single work, most of Paul Dukas’ output suffers from unjustified neglect and oblivion. Like the