
This is a very enjoyable disc from a conductor who […]
Walter Weller drives the outer movements of the Fourth Symphony hard–so hard in fact that the players have trouble articulating the notes with the necessary
Do not confuse this version of the First Symphony with Jean Martinon’s LSO recording for Decca, which has popped up on CD now and again.
If you already own Dvorák’s tone poems performed by Kubelik (DG), Neumann (Supraphon), or Harnoncourt (Warner), and you’re perfectly happy with them, you probably don’t
Walter Weller’s idiosyncratic Symphony No. 1 makes its welcome first appearance on CD. This is a highly volatile rendition, with Weller keenly attuned to the
Boris Belkin’s playing style–a mixture of lean, sinewy articulation and silky smooth tone–ideally suits the Prokofiev concertos, themselves an amalgam of musical angles and curves.
Diana Montague is a lyric–in contrast to dramatic–mezzo with a keen musical intelligence and a fine way of making a character come alive. This collection,
This Chandos reissue is full of big, rock-solid Beethoven. Walter Weller is clearly from the old school, and unashamed of it. There is something to
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