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The Bottom Line: Why is this symphony so hard to […]
A fine Capriccio Espagnol yields to merely workaday versions of the Russian Easter Festival Overture and Scheherazade, which is a pity because the orchestra plays
Here’s a very promising start to what I assume will be a new Beethoven piano concerto cycle, featuring performances not otherwise included in Naxos’ “complete”
This coupling makes a lot of sense. Stravinsky began where late Rimsky-Korsakov left off, as you can plainly hear in the more slithery, chromatic (or
Rachmaninov’s mini-cantata Spring tells of a husband intent on murdering his unfaithful wife, who then abandons his plans upon the arrival of spring. The melodically
We have no shortage of excellent versions of the two Shostakovich piano concertos, including Igoshina’s on CPO and Marc-André Hamelin’s on Hyperion. Here is another.
I have no doubt that if the sun were to die out and there was just enough energy left to launch an interstellar mission to
Vasily Petrenko’s generally sensational Shostakovich cycle concludes with this powerful and gripping performance of the Thirteenth Symphony. The interpretation is full of distinctive touches: the
It seems that reviewing music naturally gives rise to cooking (and specifically barbecue) analogies, at least when the performances demand superlatives: smoking, searing, scorching, flaming,
This is a sensational performance, the first that truly vies with the classic Rostropovich/Vishnevskaya/Reshetin for supremacy. Vasily Petrenko enjoys the distinct advantage of two absolutely
