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Expectations ran high in anticipation of this release, and they have not been disappointed. BIS just completed a partially successful Beethoven piano concerto series in
Kalevi Aho really is a good composer–you can tell right from the beginning of his Second Piano Concerto. Scored only for keyboard and strings, the
This has been an astonishing time for Beethoven lovers, and particularly for fans of the Seventh Symphony, what with excellent recent releases from Paavo Järvi
This set contains almost all of Sibelius’ incidental music written to accompany spoken theater (King Kristian II, Swanwhite, Pelléas and Mélisande, Belshazzar’s Feast, Kuolema, Jedermann,
This set contains some of Sibelius’ best and most unfamiliar work, as well as some pretty utilitarian cantatas and patriotic songs (in multiple versions). Still,
Osmo Vänskä’s Beethoven cycle with his own Minnesota Orchestra represents a triumph of basic musical values as much as keen interpretive insight. This is particularly
This entry in BIS’s projected 13-volume Sibelius Edition offers all of the popular tone poems as well as a few that are not so familiar,
This is a very appealing disc of Sibelius choral music, though some of the items have appeared previously in BIS’s ongoing series, either in alternate
This is a fantastic disc. I had the pleasure of attending the premiere of Kalevi Aho’s Symphony No. 11 (for orchestra and six percussionists) at
Flute concertos constitute one of the few media in which it’s generally more interesting to listen to contemporary music than to the works of past
