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It’s interesting to hear the stylistic consistency that marks both the teenaged Richard Strauss’ assured, exuberant First Horn Concerto and the aged composer’s Duett-Concertino and
On the whole this second installment in Barenboim’s Brahms symphony (and select other stuff) series makes a slightly better impression than the first. Part of
Georg Solti’s brash and barnstorming approach works well with Liszt’s sprawling Faust Symphony. The music’s bombast readily absorbs the Chicago Symphony’s blaring brass, here unleashed
Daniel Barenboim’s Brahms cycle does not match the excellence of his Beethoven, although there’s certainly nothing especially wrong with it. He has the Chicago Symphony
The main point of interest in Panorama’s new Haydn reissue will be Disc 2 of this set, devoted to the two cello concertos and trumpet
The best things about this Verdi Requiem are the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Daniel Barenboim’s exciting interpretation, and the male soloists, in that order.
Robert Schumann often described the opposing “Florestan” and “Eusebius” facets of his own personality. The contrasts between the mercurial, exuberant Florestan and the more considered
The recent release of another 10-disc live extravaganza from the Chicago Symphony should not blind us to the gems in those marvelous two-disc sets, available
Jean Martinon’s five-year tenure in Chicago following Fritz Reiner’s untimely death remains a controversial period in the orchestra’s history, at least from a public relations
If this set has been called “Reiner the Hedonist,” I for one wouldn’t have blinked. This doesn’t apply, of course, to a typically taut and
