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It’s been a very good couple of years for the clarinet repertoire, what with magnificent new concertos written by Lindberg, Rautavaara, and now this one
There’s no question that Osmo Vänskä is a true Beethoven conductor. He captures the music’s vitality, its eruptive character, and its dramatic syntax as well
There isn’t any major Sibelius here, and the program’s redundancy, both within the disc and in relation to BIS’s larger Sibelius project, makes it very
All listeners and critics have their own criteria for what constitutes a great Beethoven Ninth, a work so rich in content and varied in performance
This interesting disc contains more than a few Sibelius rarities well worth discovering, but let’s start with The Oceanides (a.k.a. Rondo of the Waves, in
Osmo Vänskä already has acquired an international reputation as a Beethoven conductor, thanks to some outstanding performances that he gave with the BBC Scottish Symphony
This grab-bag assortment of pieces does a little bit of necessary house-cleaning as BIS prepares to finish its complete Sibelius edition. It appears that Neeme
This somewhat randomly assembled collection (I don’t get the album title at all) includes two novelties well worth having if you haven’t heard them: the
The music of Snöfrid, a major work for orchestra, narrator, and chorus, strongly resembles that of The Wood-Nymph. Given its date of composition (1900) it
At last, Robert Kajanus the composer gets a major release to himself, thanks to BIS. While Kajanus is principally known as a conductor, particularly of
