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The notes to this release contain yet another conversation about “classical” vs. “jazz” in Gershwin’s music. The fact that this discussion is still taking place,
Return with me, if you will, to those halcyon days when men were men and communists were taken seriously. Back in the 1970s, Germany had
Riccardo Chailly and his Dresden and Leipzig forces have created a great modern interpretation of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio that realizes the truest elements of period-performance
This album uses the term “discoveries” rather loosely, especially as it applies to the Piano Concerto No. 3 in E minor, for which the third
This performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto is one of unalloyed greatness. Vadim Repin feels no need to make ostentatious points in, say, the first
Much great music making happened in San Francisco well before Michael Tilson Thomas arrived on the scene. Herbert Blomstedt’s individual discs of Hindemith’s major orchestral
It’s interesting to speculate, as the misguided partisans of Horenstein and Mitropoulos attempt to rewrite history by claiming far more significance for those artists as
My youthful memory of Misha Dichter’s 1977 Brahms D minor concerto with Kurt Masur on LP was that of an agreeable, well played, middle-of-the-road, and
If you already bought the single-disc release of Symphonies 2 and 4 (reviewed in 2007), then you’re out of luck; to complete the cycle with
This disc features the “Gewandhaus Sound” at its best–the warm, dark sonority of the strings supplemented by characterful woodwinds and bucolic horns. The only things
