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This live recording has a lot going for it. Petrenko leads a taut, disciplined, very well-played performance of the First Symphony. Tempos are swift, and
There are a lot of performances of this remarkable symphony
Great performances of this massive symphony aren’t exactly thick on
If you regard Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony as a decadent, nostalgic remnant of Czarist Russia, then you really should hear this performance. The music couldn’t sound
There are some pieces for which you want to have a score handy if you’re going to listen to them at all. Shostakovich’s Second Symphony
The Twelfth is not Shostakovich’s best symphony, but it’s not as bad as its detractors would have us believe. The first two movements in particular
Because first-rate Rachmaninov concerto cycles are the rule rather than the exception in the current catalog, any new contender must reach beyond mere surface perfection
Vasily Petrenko’s take on the First Symphony is swift and youthful, as befits this precocious early work. In the first movement he doesn’t wring every
This performance goes right to the top. Not since the amazing mono Ancerl recording has there been a version of this work of such intensity,
Jennifer Higdon has been listed among composers writing in the so-called “neo-romantic” style. However her Violin Concerto goes beyond this as she evolves a “transcendental
