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One of the iconic works of the 1960s, with its […]
It’s appropriate that since his appointment as music director of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel would present works by Scandinavian composers. Reportedly he was
Not bad, but far from excellent. Katarina Karnéus has a nice feeling for the texts, and an attractive voice that sounds well as long as
Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s First Symphony (1942), although dedicated to the Red Army (as a Jewish refugee fleeing Poland from the Nazis, Weinberg had good reason to
You want to like Rosenberg’s music more than you probably will. It’s finely crafted, and very serious. The Third Symphony (1939) originally appeared with extensive
Neeme Järvi ends his variable Tchaikovsky symphony cycle on an upswing. Symphony No. 3 benefits greatly from Järvi’s characteristic light and fast approach, which emphasizes
Martin Fröst is as fine a clarinetist as has ever touched this music, and he’s given splendidly alert and lively accompaniments courtesy of Okko Kamu
This is the finest disc so far in Chandos’ ongoing Weinberg series. It contains four marvelous concertante pieces. Unlike the symphonies recorded previously, most of
This set contains almost all of Sibelius’ incidental music written to accompany spoken theater (King Kristian II, Swanwhite, Pelléas and Mélisande, Belshazzar’s Feast, Kuolema, Jedermann,
If you saw these performances as part of a typical subscription concert, you would probably go away satisfied. They are proficient and respectful, and probably
