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Marin Alsop’s Prokofiev cycle with the São Paulo Symphony began disappointingly with the Fifth, improved dramatically with the Fourth, and now hits its stride with
Marin Alsop is making a lot of recordings; maybe too many. Her first release in this Prokofiev cycle, the Fifth Symphony, was disappointing, but this
First, this new German Requiem from Marin Alsop and the MDR Leipzig Radio choir and orchestra is among the very quickest renditions on disc—you’ll notice
Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. Marin Alsop evidently plays the double bass solo at the start of the third-movement funeral
After her excellent Bartók disc for Naxos, I had high expectations for Marin Alsop’s new Prokofiev Fifth, but the result is disappointing. This is a
Here’s a way to tell if a performance of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra is likely to be an outstanding one right from the start. Listen
Michael Daugherty manages to have his musical cake and eat it too. His music’s eclectic “pop” elements rub shoulders with thoroughly modern compositional techniques. Time
This is a tough call. The performance of the Sixth Symphony is mostly excellent, particularly in the first two movements. Marin Alsop takes the first-movement
The Baltimore Symphony has come a long way since the late 1970s and early ’80s, when I was an undergrad at Johns Hopkins and covered
The original 1924 Ferde Grofé arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for Paul Whiteman’s jazz band has been recorded before, most convincingly by Michael Tilson
