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There’s no need to spend much time on this release. One of the main premises behind the historically informed performance movement is that music of
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.
The concerto grosso is a Baroque form in which the musical content is passed between a small group and a somewhat larger group, normally a
How do you ruin the Valse triste? Well, play it this spasmodically for starters. Speed it up, slow it down, strip it of all elegance,
In September 1994, Michael Gielen filled in for an ailing
New recordings of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony used to be rare.
How to describe this set of non-happening Schumann symphonies? I had thought originally to provide a header and then leave the page totally blank, but
Florence Price (1887-1953) was the first African-American woman to have a symphony played by a major American orchestra (the Chicago Symphony in 1933). This was
Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887-1953) was the first African American woman composer to earn national recognition. Born in Arkansas, she attended the New England Conservatory
These 27 well-packed CDs contain just about everything that Berlioz
