
Familiarity breeds contempt, evidently. This is Jansons’ third recording of […]
Jansons’ first recording of Prokofiev’s Fifth, with the Leningrad Philharmonic for Chandos, was nothing special, and neither is this remake. New recordings of this symphony
The 2016 Vienna New Year’s Concert marked Mariss Jansons’ third time leading this annual event. To his credit, the conductor did not repeat any music
The deluge of Bruckner symphony releases continues, having all of the appeal and value for the recording industry of a bloom of jellyfish clogging the
This new recording of Verdi’s Requiem joins about 60 others in the catalog. There’s always a push-pull in this work–is it an opera in disguise,
It’s an old story. A relatively unknown young conductor makes
Mariss Jansons always has been an impressive Shostakovich conductor, and his first recording of the Tenth, with the Philadelphia Orchestra for EMI, was excellent. He
It’s nice to have available a new performance of Schubert’s
As with his 2006 Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert program, Mariss Jansons rings in 2012 with a fresh mix of traditional fare and novelties. Several
Any conductor who makes a new recording of repertoire in which he has already done sterling work and fails to surpass himself should have his