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Obviously, EMI wanted this recording to complete its Rattle Mahler cycle–heaven knows why, because it’s the least interesting, least insightful, most poorly played and worst-recorded
There have been only a handful of recordings of Michael Tippett’s oratorio A Child of Our Time–André Previn and the RPO, Colin Davis and the
Nikolai Lugansky and Sakari Oramo turn in a solid and smartly paced reading of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini that matches the high
Karita Mattila is such an intelligent singer that it’s a pity not to be able to recommend this disc more enthusiastically. She’s at her very
In a catalog crowded with superb performances of Rachmaninov’s First and Third concertos, Nikolai Lugansky’s world-class pianism and Sakari Oramo’s solid, sparkling support (thanks of
If you spent any time at all in hi-fi stores in the early-1970s you probably got an earful of Louis Frémaux’s EMI Massenet LP, especially
Simon Rattle’s Boléro proceeds dutifully to its clamorous conclusion without incident (or any particular insight). But Daphnis et Chloé is the main interest here, and
This marvelous collection (a reissue of a set released in 1991, compiled from earlier recordings) reaffirms Benjamin Britten as one of the great composers of
Written in 1918, Karol Szymanowski’s unique opera King Roger is a work of striking beauty and intensity. The libretto, sung in Polish, reflects the composer’s
Lars Vogt’s phrasing in the Schumann Concerto flip-flops between militant (the brusque, in-tempo introductory measures and the machine-like 16th-note patterns in the flippantly-paced Finale) and
