
This disc begins promisingly with Sonoko Miriam Welde’s very fine rendition of the Bruch Violin Concerto where her bright yet full tone ideally conveys both
The Bottom Line: Why is this symphony so hard to
The Bottom Line: Although there are some very fine performances
A fine Capriccio Espagnol yields to merely workaday versions of the Russian Easter Festival Overture and Scheherazade, which is a pity because the orchestra plays
[RIP Mariss Jansons] Jansons’ previous two releases in his Brahms cycle featured excellent playing in a generalized sort of way, but little more. This final
In January 1956 the Norwegian State Radio System presented Wagner’s Götterdämmerung conducted by Øivin Fjelstad, with a cast headed by Kirsten Flagstad, who came out
There’s real talent in Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad’s viola playing. Certainly the Walton concerto holds no terrors for him. Aside from perhaps an excessively wide vibrato
This is an absolutely stunning collection, both interpretively and sonically
It’s easy to overlook yet another recording of these popular
It’s an old story. A relatively unknown young conductor makes