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This budget-priced eight-disc set contains some of the best of Paavo Berglund’s EMI Sibelius recordings. His symphony cycle with the Helsinki Philharmonic, while generally excellent, does not roundly
Here’s a true story: A couple of decades ago I took a date to an opera performance at the MET. Sitting next to me was
Naxos is putting together a very good Vaughan Williams symphony cycle, featuring exciting performances on the whole, and this newcomer is no exception. Paul Daniel
Marin Alsop and her Bournemouth players do themselves proud on this excellently played and brightly recorded disc of Adams chestnuts. Short Ride in a Fast
Philip Glass’ symphonies are unique among the composer’s output for their relative harmonic and thematic complexity. Listeners put off by Glass’ endlessly repeated arpeggios will
Henning Kraggerud is a risk-taker, which mostly is a good thing. In the Sibelius he plays with tremendous intensity and feeling, particularly in the extremely
I enjoyed this disc very much in its stereo incarnation, and I like it even more in multi-channel sound. This is one of the finest
Nocturne (from Quo Vadis) is a reissue taken from a 1988 Unicorn-Kanchana release, and now that the complete work is available from Chandos its presence
Marin Alsop follows up her excellent Samuel Barber series for Naxos with works by her one-time mentor, Leonard Bernstein. For the most part, she and
This performance could have been a serious contender despite very strong competition, but it’s sabotaged by incompetently engineered sound that makes normal listening a chore.
