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This is billed as the world-premiere recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin […]
Deutsche Grammophon touts Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s new fast-and-light-textured Schumann symphony cycle as “revelatory”, but there are already several recordings (Harnoncourt, Dausgaard, Zinman, Norrington, to name a
This is an energetic, ideally balanced performance of Cosi—no small feat. Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s leadership percolates and is full of wit, but it is not cold;
Claudio Abbado is one of the more enigmatic conductors still
Programs of English string orchestra music have been recorded many
Abbado conducts Haydn like an extremely insecure yet precocious child looking for attention. Never at his best in music of the Classical period, he fusses
This DG Concerts Download release of the July 2, 2006 all-Mozart concert from the Styriarte Festival in Graz, Austria offers warm-hearted, graceful Mozart performances, featuring
Philips’ Great Pianists volume devoted to Rudolf Serkin provides a rather unbalanced overview of the pianist’s work. His 1936 “Appassionata” (Serkin’s debut solo recording) boasts
Rudolf Barshai created these arrangements of Shostakovich’s Quartets Nos. 3, 4, 8, and 10, and while his performances have been equalled in some instances (notably
No matter how emotionally varied or harmonically adventurous Mozart’s piano concertos may be, three in the same key on one concert or on one CD
