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Collectors of a certain age may remember this attractive pairing of Mozart’s 17th and 27th piano concertos through its original LP release on Vox’s subsidiary
Well what do you know? After their generally fine Mahler Fourth, Vänskä and his Minnesota forces find themselves on a roll. This is a very
Osmo Vänskä’s Minnesota Mahler cycle has been pretty uniformly dismal: expressively neutral, glacially played, tensionless, and interpretively fussy. This Fourth represents a big improvement, I’m
Webster’s defines “torpid” as, “(a) sluggish in functioning or acting,
Oh boy, here we go again. Vänskä has turned the
This has got to be the most expressively sterile, emotionally neutral performance of Mahler’s Fifth yet captured on disc. I might call it a “CD
Osmo Vänskä recorded a superb Kullervo Symphony in Lahti–indeed, that was and remains a reference version. It featured a particularly brave, because very slow but
After a long, stupid, and debilitating strike, the Minnesota Orchestra is back sounding basically as it did previously, which means very good. That doesn’t mean
My first experience with the music of Aaron Copland was
These performances are very well played, very well recorded, and very badly conducted. Don’t get me wrong: Vänskä gets exactly what he wants, and has
