Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Here’s a terrific disc for record collectors looking to complete their collections of Saint-Saëns’ orchestral music. The ballet from Act III of Ascanio is typical
There is no truly great disc of the four Saint-Saëns symphonic poems. Perhaps the best of them is the old Pierre Dervaux on EMI, but
Last time I checked, the Siegfried Idyll was not a concert overture. It’s a pity, really, because Wagner did write more than we find here,
Chopin’s two concertos often benefit from the use of a chamber orchestra. In this recording, for example, one encounters punchier brass tuttis and leaner yet
Eugen D’Albert was a tremendously gifted musician, and even had
Messiaen’s tone poems Le tombeau resplendissant and Hymne are early works (1931-32), save for the fact that the score of the latter was lost and
My very first encounter with the Dvorák Cello Concerto was at a live performance, a thrilling experience that precious few recordings have come close to
Putting all of Debussy’s works for solo and orchestra together on a single disc is smart programming, even if it makes for somewhat short playing
The most compelling item in this collection is En blanc et noir, not only one of Debussy’s most advanced instrumental works (composed for two pianos),
You might call this a second-rate disc of second-rate Debussy. The performances are acceptable to good, the music uniformly pretty. Khamma works best as a
