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The spongy, string-dominated opening of this Scheherazade is an immediate turn-off. What happened to the accents? Where are the trombones? (I’ll tell you where: they’re
It’s a slow trek across the snow in Valdimir Fedoseyev’s rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Winter Daydreams symphony. With a leaden pulse that never varies, the first
The Snow Maiden was premiered in 1882 to great acclaim throughout Russia. Its success is easily contemplated; after all, it’s based on one of the
This Shostakovich Tenth is a bit of a disappointment, especially in light of the generally compelling releases so far from Moscow Studio Archives. Vladimir Fedoseyev
Throughout his Tchaikovsky symphony cycle Vladimir Fedoseyev has striven to expose the music’s inner detail, and he has achieved this to such a degree that
This unusual collection not only presents a unique program for cello and orchestra, but also showcases Victor Simon’s amazing skills on his instrument. The stately
Vladimir Fedoseyev’s Tchaikovsky Third is a great improvement over his torpid reading of Symphony No. 1, reviewed earlier. He appears to have dumped the conductorial
Vladimir Fedoseyev’s interpretive preferences rarely take in extremes of excitement, and this means that the ferocious second movement of the Tenth Symphony comes off sounding
I have had a weakness for Italo Montemezzi’s dense, post-Wagnerian, vaguely impressionistic L’Amore dei tre re ever since I heard an old Cetra set with
