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Schumann didn’t start out a lousy orchestrator; he became one, largely a result of his own failures as a conductor, of his inability to get
The presence of liner notes in Japanese leads me to suspect that this disc was specifically released to target the audience in that market, which
Party record alert! This stupifyingly dull record is appalling. Roger Norrington claims in his notes that there was no such thing as continuous vibrato in
The rag-tag pickup ensemble optimistically named The London Classical Players catapulted Roger Norrington to fame, aided in no small degree by the pandering lip-service of
This exciting and accomplished performance of Beethoven’s Ninth conclusively proves that neither Roger Norrington nor that pathetically scrappy pick-up orchestra gathered together under the deceptively
Like the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies in Roger Norrington’s recent live Beethoven cycle with the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Nos. 5 and 6 immeasurably surpass
Roger Norrington’s new Eroica blows away his previous recording on EMI. Part of the reason stems from the fact that where previously he had to
Who would have thought Roger Norrington had it in him? This (generally) swift and (entirely) exciting, highly individual interpretation of The Planets has numerous interesting
A friend of mine called while I was auditioning these terrific performances, and when I told him how much I was enjoying the disc he
Roger Norrington’s rapidly evolving second Beethoven cycle continues to reveal that in most respects the conductor has finally learned how to perform this music, at
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