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Here we go again: pitiful orchestral playing in foggy mono […]
This latest release in the BBC’s ongoing series of live
There was a guiding intelligence behind this set, something we
There are some works in which excellent versions are so
I had read such great things about these performances on an opera chat board when they were current (the opera was recorded in two sections
This classic disc returns with a “bonus” in the form
This must have sounded very good live. The symphony receives an exciting performance, swift but (as preserved here) also somewhat slick. In the first movement
Simon Rattle recorded three of these arrangements, drearily, but these performances are far more colorful and appealing. Matthews’ orchestrations have many fine qualities, and a
Recorded live in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall over two evenings in May, 2009, this concert recording of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung easily stands among the work’s three or
Cristian Mandeal leads a broad-scaled, carefully contoured Bruckner Ninth that, while attentive to the score’s breadth and unique orchestral coloring, misses the music’s drama and
