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Simon Rattle’s Boléro proceeds dutifully to its clamorous conclusion without incident (or any particular insight). But Daphnis et Chloé is the main interest here, and
This marvelous collection (a reissue of a set released in 1991, compiled from earlier recordings) reaffirms Benjamin Britten as one of the great composers of
EMI must know that the world is not exactly desperate for yet another Mahler Fifth. The label (not including its Virgin Classics imprint) owns multiple
Written in 1918, Karol Szymanowski’s unique opera King Roger is a work of striking beauty and intensity. The libretto, sung in Polish, reflects the composer’s
Lars Vogt’s phrasing in the Schumann Concerto flip-flops between militant (the brusque, in-tempo introductory measures and the machine-like 16th-note patterns in the flippantly-paced Finale) and
Simon Rattle’s second go at Mahler’s Tenth is similar to his first, both in regard to the generally quick and flowing tempos and in his
Bad recordings of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder are hard to come by because the composer made it so easy to produce good ones. Schoenberg meticulously wrote down
Most musicals today are subjected to endless rewrites, tryouts, and more rewrites. When Leonard Bernstein and his lyricist cohorts Betty Comden and Adolph Green were
Mixing jazz and classical was nothing new for Duke Ellington. The great jazz pianist/composer/orchestra leader always had admirers from the classical world–among his contemporaries, such
A pianist acquaintance characterized one winner of an international piano competition as “A BMW without the driver.” After hearing a recital where Andrei Gavrilov hammered
