
Previous Telarc SACDs have sounded anywhere from stunningly fabulous to disappointingly diffuse. This one stands somewhere in between. It’s good, but still better in stereo.
Leon Botstein’s swift and seamless pacing of Glière’s Il’ya Murometz gives this exceptionally long symphony a much needed momentum while advancing the story’s dramatic narrative.
Releases like this one make you wonder if record company executives imagine their product will sit prominently displayed in the store, indefinitely, and never be
If you think the best part of Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten is its euphoric and seemingly interminable concluding scene (and really wished it
It’s good to see some neglected music by this Polish master taken out and given a fresh airing now and again, and three quarters of
What a surprising and marvelous release! Karl Amadeus Hartmann is, along with Hindemith, the premier post-War German symphonist, and one of a tiny handful of