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Every major conductor, and most not-so-major ones, comes around to […]
These are sleek, well-played performances. If I were writing for
At this point Eric Whitacre could lend his name to a line of spaghetti sauce, frozen dinners, clothing—hey, why not a video game?—and his enormous
These are for the most part very good performances. The First Symphony fares best. The outer movements have the necessary guts in terms of accentuation,
This reissue brings together just about all of Christoph Eschenbach’s solo piano recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, with the notable exception of his Mozart sonata cycle
Not that you’d be tempted to buy this, but just in case, this isn’t the worst possible coupling. EMI once released a Tennstedt recording of
Gergiev brings this symphony home in just under 80 minutes, and so it fits on a single disc. I have no doubt that anyone attending
Janet Baker is one of those singers whose voice moves some listeners to tears and others to muttering imputations such as “matronly”. I’m a dues-paying
Richard Hickox’s celebrated 1991 recording of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem remains one of the best in the catalog and it now makes its re-appearance in
The CD booklet cover, with its bland, faded rendering of Beethoven and equally bland typography, gives the impression of a budget reissue of an older
