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Let’s not kid ourselves: Boulez’s music is not easy, isn’t meant to be, and never will be popular. It’s useful to keep this in mind
Those who are familiar with Pierre Boulez’s earlier “Complete Webern” on Sony will notice that his new Deutsche Grammophon edition contains six discs to Sony’s
The Vienna Philharmonic never has played Mahler particularly well, or with evident enthusiasm. It needs to be forced. Bernstein could get the orchestra to do
These are extremely fine recordings, topped only by Boulez himself on DG, performances not necessarily “better”, but certainly sonically superior. Still, I retain a marginal
Pierre Boulez always has done well by The Song of the Nightingale. Having recorded the complete opera too, he knows the music as well as
This is an exceptional Bruckner Eighth, make no mistake. Here’s why. Pierre Boulez does all of the things that a great Bruckner performance requires. First,
A potent fusion of intellectual severity and technical finesse brings rare distinction to Mitsuko Uchida’s new Philips survey of key Second Viennese School piano works.
These performances, the excellence of which is well known (as is their less than stellar sonic quality), acquire a new lease on life in multi-channel
The “making of” in this case refers not to Wagner’s Ring itself, but to the famous Patrice Chéreau production that marked the Bayreuth Festival’s centenary
Three concertos, three orchestras, three soloists, one conductor–an interesting concept, and it works. These are very fine performances by any standard. The First Concerto at
