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Vänskä remade the Lemminkäinen Legends very successfully in SACD sound. Both […]
Poulenc had unflattering things to say about his piano works,
Osmo Vänskä’s 1999 recording of the four Lemminkäinen legends was a rare disappointment, both interpretively and sonically. BIS knew it, and so the label has
These performances are very well played, very well recorded, and very badly conducted. Don’t get me wrong: Vänskä gets exactly what he wants, and has
This nicely varied selection of little-known Sibelius contains four orchestral
How do you rate an excellent performance of a bastard
[Reviewer’s Note: In selecting a reference recording for this wonderful
Doesn’t conductor Osmo Vänskä have anything better to do? It wasn’t so long ago that he recorded an excellent Sibelius cycle with his Lahti forces.
Osmo Vänskä’s Sibelius cycle is unquestionably one of the great ones, and its qualities are well-known: extremes of tempo (the Scherzo of the First, the
All of the discs in this set have been reviewed individually, and in detail. Still, it’s worth pointing out that this is unquestionably one the
