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This series has been inconsistent, but these are good performances. In the Fifth Symphony, Elder adopts brisk tempos that serve the piece well. The music
Vaughan Williams’ Pastoral Symphony has turned out to be a tricky work to conduct and record. Mark Elder hasn’t quite gotten the pacing right, or
Whenever I’m not listening to this opera, which is most of the time, I despise it. The plot’s intrigues are unclear, there are long moments
I had read such great things about these performances on an opera chat board when they were current (the opera was recorded in two sections
Maria di Rohan, one of Donizetti’s last operas, is also one of his leanest. It was composed for Vienna in 1843 for an audience that
This must have sounded very good live. The symphony receives an exciting performance, swift but (as preserved here) also somewhat slick. In the first movement
Taken from two concert performances in London last year, this note-complete performance of Donizetti’s late, semi-seria Linda di Chamounix, while very good in many ways,
Simon Rattle recorded three of these arrangements, drearily, but these performances are far more colorful and appealing. Matthews’ orchestrations have many fine qualities, and a
Recorded live in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall over two evenings in May, 2009, this concert recording of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung easily stands among the work’s three or
This, Donizetti’s last completed opera, is a rather gloomy affair despite its pomp. Premiered at the Paris Opera in 1843, it is the most gigantic
