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After their awful Beethoven disc I had low expectations for Van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic, sad to say, but these aren’t bad performances.
This is a grand finale to the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s Ring Cycle. Both Walküre and Siegfried were marvelously conceived, excellent concert performances, each with a
Want to guarantee a boring Beethoven recording? First: master it
Are these people insane? Before turning to the performances in
This is a fine follow-up to the same group’s Die Walküre released on Naxos last year (see reviews). Maestro Jaap van Zweden is again in
A minor caveat first. Listeners will have to adjust to the voice/orchestra balance: the former is highlighted to an irritating degree in Act 1. This
Taken from two concert performances in January, 2015, this is the first installment of an entire Ring Cycle from the Hong Kong Philharmonic under Jaap
Let’s face it: this disc was released simply because the
Bruckner’s symphonies are the classical music equivalent of scientology: just the thing if you’re thinking of joining some mind-numbing cult. Too many conductors slog through
Remember when recordings of Parsifal were rare? There were a handful of Knas, then Solti, Barenboim, Karajan, and Kubelik. Now every Tom, Dick, Gergiev, and
