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The Music Makers is the Elgarian equivalent of Bach’s Magnificat: it does everything that one of the composer’s choral works ought to do, but in
You want to like this performance: it’s bold, and it’s gutsy at the start of O Fortuna; but in that same opening song the problems
Michael Hersch is a talented composer, no doubt about it, and there’s a lot to admire here. The Second Symphony starts with music of great
Horenstein leads a lackluster rendition of Rossini’s Semiramide Overture. Although his near-total inability to vary tempos in accordance with the composer’s directions hadn’t manifested itself
This disc makes an ideal introduction to Toru Takemitsu’s very beautiful and personal sound world. It’s particularly nice to have the three-movement suite of film
Marin Alsop’s nicely varied Bernstein program presents an interesting cross-section of the composer’s theater and concert music. The Serenade is one of the composer’s most
Here’s a convenient box that brings together Richard Hickox’s generally very fine set of Tippett symphonies, though I wonder why Chandos neglected to include the
Naxos continues to do what it can to put Chandos out of business, offering at budget price recordings every bit as good, or in this
It’s a very good thing that Naxos has gotten around to recording Kurt Weill’s two symphonies, and quite well too. Previous issues by such conductors
EMI’s Grieg two-fer offers a generous sampling of the composer’s orchestral works, with a few piano pieces thrown in for good measure. Paavo Berglund leads
