Vänskä; Osmo

Vänskä’s Mostly Impressive Mahler Seventh

David Hurwitz

Well what do you know? After their generally fine Mahler Fourth, Vänskä and his Minnesota forces find themselves on a roll. This is a very

Vänskä’s Much Improved Mahler 4th

David Hurwitz

Osmo Vänskä’s Minnesota Mahler cycle has been pretty uniformly dismal: expressively neutral, glacially played, tensionless, and interpretively fussy. This Fourth represents a big improvement, I’m

CD From Hell: Vänskä’s Torpid Minnesota Mahler First

David Hurwitz

Webster’s defines “torpid” as, “(a) sluggish in functioning or acting,

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CD From Hell: Vänskä Leads The Stepford Phil In Mahler’s Sixth

David Hurwitz

Oh boy, here we go again. Vänskä has turned the

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Vänskä Starts His New Mahler Cycle Badly

David Hurwitz

This has got to be the most expressively sterile, emotionally neutral performance of Mahler’s Fifth yet captured on disc. I might call it a “CD

Stimulating Stuff: Sudbin/Vänskä’s Beethoven Cycle Concluded

Jed Distler

With this release Yevgeny Sudbin and Osmo Vänskä complete their survey of Beethoven’s piano concertos, and once again make these ubiquitous scores sound new by

Vänskä’s Kullervo Remake: Nothing New, Bad Marketing

David Hurwitz

Osmo Vänskä recorded a superb Kullervo Symphony in Lahti–indeed, that was and remains a reference version. It featured a particularly brave, because very slow but

Vänskä Finishes Not-So-Hot Minnesota Sibelius Cycle

David Hurwitz

After a long, stupid, and debilitating strike, the Minnesota Orchestra is back sounding basically as it did previously, which means very good. That doesn’t mean