
After decades of listening to this symphony, and hours of […]
Every major conductor, and most not-so-major ones, comes around to
George Szell recorded the Sibelius Second for Philips with the
Dohnányi’s Mahler recordings stand among the biggest disappointments of his
Christoph von Dohnányi used to remark wryly that whenever he
If you want all of Messiaen’s orchestral and vocal-orchestral music
The terms “classic” and “definitive”, so overused that they are
This is the best Boulez recording in quite a while. He offers the canonic 12 Wunderhorn songs, meaning no Urlicht and no Das himmlische Leben
Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s playing and Boulez’s conducting are both very good–but just a touch flat as compared to the best of the competition. In the Left
First things first. Make sure to turn up the volume when playing this low-level live recording, lest you get the impression that nothing’s going on