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Those with an acquired taste for angry, complex, 12-tone-sounding social protest music will find William Kraft’s Contextures II: The Final Beast (1985-1986) a superior specimen.
On April 28, 2006, the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen played a concert, and on May 9 this recording of it was available for
This fabulous and inexpensive set of Strauss tone poems, built around Zubin Mehta’s hyper-Romantic Los Angeles recordings, should find favor with anyone who cares about
Alicia de Larrocha’s late-1970s recording of Beethoven’s Emperor concerto with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic stands as a solid and forthright contender in
Fans of the Roger Wagner Chorale will especially welcome this reissue of the group’s 1961 Respighi/Monteverdi recording, presented in exceptionally clear-sounding transfers from the two-
To know Esa-Pekka Salonen as a conductor who also composes is, as the booklet accompanying the first CD of his music says, “. . .
Zubin Mehta’s Ravel receives some predictably fine playing from the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Boléro really lets the individual members of the orchestra show off, and
Giulini’s Los Angeles La Mer has had a spotty history on disc yet it remains his finest account of the score, a bit measured in
Decca’s Ives orchestral music set makes for an attractive and inexpensive way to collect these startlingly original works. Zubin Mehta’s recording of Symphonies Nos. 1
Some recordings of Bartok’s Violin Concerto emphasize the work’s romantic and lyrical tendencies, while others play up its abrasive and acerbic nature. Of the former
