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Kent Nagano is not noted for his affinity for Bruckner, and he has made his job even more difficult by choosing the most awkward (and
Is John Adams’ El Niño the Christmas oratorio of our time? The composer admits that in his youth he wanted to write a Messiah, and
These are very fine performances, realistically recorded in multichannel sound. It’s always good to hear Christian Tetzlaff, a violinist with a reputation for “coolness” that
The musical world is not exactly screaming for another recording of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, even though this one is perfectly fine. Kent Nagano
I really wanted to be able to recommend this disc. After all, it seems like such a worthy undertaking, simply oozing good intentions. All three
This collection exactly duplicates the 1905 concert in which these works were premiered. The “Lieder-Abend” introduced a new musical format: the orchestral song. In recreating
Century Rolls is a piano concerto composed in 1996 for Emmanuel Ax and the Cleveland orchestra. Adams’ inspiration came while listening to recordings of player-pianos,
It’s useful, if not essential, to keep faith with composers’ original versions of their works, and in the case of Stravinsky’s first ballet score, The
Leonard Bernstein wrote more music for his ill-fated 1976 musical with Alan Jay Lerner, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, than for any of his other theater projects.
Ferruccio Busoni’s posthumous opera Doktor Faust was premiered in Dresden on May 21, 1925. Pianist, composer, teacher, theorist, and writer, Busoni (1866-1924) had died the
