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Let’s not mince words. This is a great disc. The […]
Most discussions of Allan Pettersson’s music maintain that he only reaches the apogee of musical darkness and misery in his later symphonies, a reflection of
Conductor Lu Jia plays Arnold Schönberg’s transcription of Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 4 like an orchestral work by Schönberg, not a “fifth symphony” by Brahms.
This series started out with generally excellent recordings of the early concertos, and has gone steadily downhill thanks to Andrew Parrott’s systematic reduction of Beethoven’s
Beethoven’s concertos are true partnerships, so when one of the partners is crippled the result can only be failure. These performances have been experiments of
Ronald Brautigam is an excellent Beethoven pianist, and he turns in a performance of the Second concerto’s solo part that’s as lively and attractive as
Ronald Brautigam is one of those pianists who invariably sounds fresh and involving, even in music that you thought you knew really well. One of
What a strange mixture of the old and new Hugo Alfvén’s music represents! His Fifth Symphony, which he worked on for some 20 years in
You really want to like this better than you probably will. The performances are excellent, and as always with BIS, they’re extremely well recorded. Conductor
The performances here are stunning. Believe it or not, this is the third recording (at least) of the Fourth Symphony, a marvelously focused piece from
